Robert Parker

Exploring Chemistry

A BAFTA special award winning documentary that pays a visit to a first-year chemistry class in a London secondary school (Wandsworth Comprehensive), where three pupils' theories as to why copper turns black when heated in air are tested. Intended for science teachers to show how a child's natural curiosity can be encouraged. Includes a sequence on the work of Mrs. C. Hutt in experimental psychology.

Life in Australia: Brisbane

Made by the Department of Immigration to entice immigrants from Great Britain, this film shows an idyllic picture of life in the Queensland capital of Brisbane in the mid 1960s.