{"id":"d6zbbya","internal_id":"529cb1b7-a1fb-47b6-89b5-48e733e60b6f","links":{"img_thumbnail":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/downloads/deriv/lvb4axb/thumb_large_2X?disposition=inline","html_self":"https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/d6zbbya"},"title":"Elements and Compounds","additional_title":[],"format":["moving_image"],"genre":["Video Recordings"],"medium":["VHS"],"extent":["32M 35S"],"language":["English"],"provenance":"","subject":["Chemical elements","Periodic table","Educational films"],"department":"Archives","series_arrangement":[],"rights":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-RUU/1.0/","rights_holder":"","digitization_funder":"","file_creator":"Myers, Emmett","description":"\"Elements and Compounds\" 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. This episode, “Elements and Compounds,” teaches viewers how matter is organized into elements and compounds, and shows how the periodic table helps predict chemical properties and reactions.","description_html":"<p>\"Elements and Compounds\" 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. This episode, “Elements and Compounds,” teaches viewers how matter is organized into elements and compounds, and shows how the periodic table helps predict chemical properties and reactions.</p>","published_at":"2026-05-04T14:54:11Z","updated_at":"2026-05-04T14:54:11Z","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}