NLM Wednesday Night Film Series
Motion Picture Evolution
For over 100 years, filmmakers have imaginatively responded to Darwin's theory of evolution. This seven-week film series will feature evolutionary monsters and morality, degeneration, extinction and perfection; clashes between evolutionary theory and religious belief; human meddling with the "natural" course of evolution; and lots of scientists, dinosaurs, supermen and cavewomen!
September 16 – October 28, 2009
Wednesdays, Noon & 6:00 PM
[Note: September 16th only, early show starts at 1:00 pm.]
National Library of Medicine (NIH)
Lister Hill Auditorium
8600 Rockville Pike, Bldg 38A
Bethesda, MD
Free and open to the public
Complimentary snacks & refreshments, 5:30-6:00pm!
For more information: Michael Sappol, sappolm@mail.nih.gov,
301.594.0348.
Directions, security, parking, etc.: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/about/visitus.html.
Sept 16, 2009
[Note: this week only, early show starts at 1:00 pm.]
Inherit the Wind (128 min.) (1960; dir. Stanley Kramer, with Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly, Frederic March)
1:00 pm: Introduced by Thomas E. Piemme, MD
6:00 pm: Introduced by Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette (author of Reframing Scopes: Journalists, Scientists, and Lost Photographs from the Trial of the Century [University Press of Kansas, 2008]
Sept 23, 2009
Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde (98 min.) (1931; dir. Reuben Mamoulian, with Frederic March)
Introduced by Mike Sappol (National Library of Medicine)
Sept 30, 2009
One Million Years B.C. (100 min.) (1966, w/Raquel Welch)
Introduced by Andrew Nolan (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Oct 7,2009
Television Evolution
Outer Limits "The Sixth Finger" (50 min.) (1963, with David McCallum)
Star Trek "Space Seed" (50 min.) (1967, with William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban)
Introduced by Mike Sappol (National Library of Medicine)
Oct 14, 2009
The Time Machine (103 min.) (1960; dir. George Pal, with Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux)
Introduced by David Cantor (National Library of Medicine)
Oct 21, 2009
Planet of the Apes (112 min.) (1968; with Charlton Heston, Roddy McDowall; screenplay by Michael Wilson and Rod Serling)
Introduced by Andrew Nolan (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Oct 28, 2009
Evolution: What About God? (55 min.)(2002; PBS/WGBH documentary)
Introduced by Paul Theerman (National Library of Medicine), with discussion afterward.