Directed by Ramsay Short and Michael Orrom, with cinematography by the incredible Winton Hoch, “A Light In Nature” is a 1960 film about science created by the Shell Oil Corporation. The film shows scientific research and the creative process of discovery in probing radioactivity, astronomy, materials science, geology, biophysics, oceanography, the discovery of DNA, etc.

This production was made to coincide with the Tercentenary of the Royal Society as a tribute to the scientific spirit of enquiry. “This film seeks to reveal the exciting progress of scientific discovery through the centuries, which has brought mankind close to an understanding of the nature of the universe and perhaps of life itself…”

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