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HEARTS & QUARKS Production Materials
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Language of Material:
Undetermined
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title:
Hearts & Quarks production materials
Identifier/Call Number: SC0439
Physical Description:
3.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1987-1988
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.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of Jane Wagner, 1993-1994.
This collection is open for research.
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.
HEARTS & QUARKS (SC0439). Department of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
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.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
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.
An overview of the film 'Hearts and Quarks' published 1989 Feb 1 in the Stanford newspaper
(Campus Report ) is available in the respositroy.
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.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Videorecordings.
Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Phonotapes.
motion pictures (visual works)
Technology -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Wagner, Jane.
Drell, Sidney D. (Sidney David)
Shumway, N. E. (Norman Edward)