Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Wagner, Jane.
- Abstract:
- Collection consists of original 16mm film negatives (with 3/4 inch video copies), audio tapes, and transcripts of interviews with Dr. Norman Shumway and Prof. Sidney Drell and of a conversation between Shumway and Drell.
- Extent:
- 3.5 Linear Feet
- Language:
- Undetermined .
- Preferred citation:
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HEARTS & QUARKS (SC0439). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Hearts & Quarks, Two Perspectives on Modern Technology, addresses questions raised by the applications and effects of science in our society; it focuses on the careers of two Stanford University scientists, Sidney Drell and Dr. Norman Shumway. Prof . Drell , a theoretical physicist and arms control expert, is deputy director of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center; Dr. Shumway, who performed the first U.S. heart transplant in 1968, is chairman of cardiovascular surgery at the Stanford Medical Center. The film combines interviews with historical and contemporary footage.
This collection of production materials includes the l6mm film negatives (with 3/4 inch video copies) of Wagner's interviews with Drell and Shumway and of a conversation between Drell and Shumway; audio tapes of the above as well as class and operating room sounds and the narration; and logs and transcripts.
- Biographical / historical:
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Jane Wagner received her B.Sc and M.Sc in political sociology from the London School of Economics . She completed her master's degree in documentary film production at Stanford University in 1988. Her thesis film, Hearts & Quarks, has been screened at the 20th International Documentary Film Festival in Nyon, Switzerland; the 39th International Film Festival in Berlin; the National Educational Film Festival; and the Montreal International Festival of Women's Films.
HEARTS & QUARKS, a film about the ethics and application of modern science and technology, was Jane Wagner's masters thesis project for the Dept. of Communications Documentary Film Program at Stanford. It features interviews with physicist Sidney Drell and heart surgeon Norman Shumway.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Jane Wagner, 1993-1994.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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This collection is open for research.
- Terms of access:
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All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
- Preferred citation:
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HEARTS & QUARKS (SC0439). Department of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
- Location of this collection:
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Stanford University Archives, Green Library557 Escondido MallStanford, CA 94305-6064, US
- Contact:
- (650) 725-1022