{"id":"80wgv9n","internal_id":"539cfd75-d177-4329-9f49-8f0afc53a2ae","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/qfnm6vm/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/80wgv9n"},"title":"Atoms and Molecules","additional_title":[],"format":["moving_image"],"genre":["Video Recordings"],"medium":["VHS"],"extent":["30M 5S"],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Atoms","Molecules","Educational films"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Myers, Emmett","description":"\"Atoms and Molecules\" is one of fifty-three short educational films originally produced in 1955 for KQED San Francisco as part of the series Tempest in a Test Tube. This series of half-hour episodes illustrates basic chemistry concepts for high school students through live experiments and demonstrations by presenter Dr. Harry Sello. The experiments used in the show were designed by the American Chemical Society’s California chapter and reflect the safety standards of the time.  A Later, 1987 introduction with Dr. Harry Sello has been removed from this version due to sound and image issues, but identical introductions are available in other Tempest in a Test Tube videos in this collection. This episode, “Atoms and Molecules,” teaches viewers how atoms and molecules form the basis of matter, and shows how their motion and arrangement affect the behavior of liquids and gases.","description_html":"<p>\"Atoms and Molecules\" is one of fifty-three short educational films originally produced in 1955 for KQED San Francisco as part of the series Tempest in a Test Tube. This series of half-hour episodes illustrates basic chemistry concepts for high school students through live experiments and demonstrations by presenter Dr. Harry Sello. The experiments used in the show were designed by the American Chemical Society’s California chapter and reflect the safety standards of the time.  A Later, 1987 introduction with Dr. Harry Sello has been removed from this version due to sound and image issues, but identical introductions are available in other Tempest in a Test Tube videos in this collection. This episode, “Atoms and Molecules,” teaches viewers how atoms and molecules form the basis of matter, and shows how their motion and arrangement affect the behavior of liquids and gases.</p>","published_at":"2026-05-04T14:52:12Z","updated_at":"2026-05-04T14:52:12Z","creator":[{"category":"creator_of_work","value":"American Chemical Society"},{"category":"creator_of_work","value":"KQED-TV (Television station : San Francisco, Calif.)"}],"date_of_work":[{"start":"1987","start_qualifier":"circa","finish":"","finish_qualifier":"","note":"","formatted":"Circa 1987"}],"place":[{"category":"place_of_creation","value":"California--San Francisco"}],"inscription":[],"related_link":[],"additional_credit":[],"physical_container":null}