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Monday, January 12, 2004 A Semi-Question Some time last week I saw an old black and white documentary which I think was titled "The Race for the Double Helix with Isaac Asimov" with, of course, Isaac Asimov as the narrator/host. What I want to know is if the documentary can be accessed by anybody or are all the copies locked up in academic institutions? I've been trying to find some mention of it in Google but have so far come up empty. In many ways, this old documentary is way better than that other movie with Jeff Goldblum (a.k.a. the chaos scientist in Jurassic Park). I mean, this has Isaac Asimov--who can go wrong with that? And there are also interviews with Jim Watson, Francis Crick, Maurice Wilkins, and Linus Pauling. I believe Asimov was narrating the film from Cold Spring Harbor. The highlight of the film was when Watson totally went off about an incident stemming from receiving Pauling's manuscript on the structure of DNA. In his eagerness to prove Pauling wrong, he rushed off to Rosalind Franklin's lab to try to foist the manuscript on her so she could compare Pauling's ideas with her x-ray crystallography photographs. Franklin refused to read the manuscript and Watson claimed that Franklin was even going to hit him. Wilkins and Crick, on the other hand, were a bit more cautious about describing the incident. [posted by S. Y. Affolee on 4:13 PM : ]
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