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Wonder of Our Body, The (1958)

Functions of the human body explained with special emphasis on the senses of sight and hearing and the individual's responsibility to care for the house lived in.

This film was part of Wonder series, made by the Moody Institute of Science, shares some similiarities with the Mr. Wizard television series - kids come by and visit the neighborhood scientist who is happy to demonstrate some science experiments. The difference, of course, is the obligatory Moody tip of the hat to the Supreme Being.


This movie is part of the collection: A/V Geeks

Production Company: Moody Institute of Science
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: science vs. religion

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

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Reviewer: Spuzz - - January 24, 2006
Subject: Godless body parts
This Moody film is alright I guess, but the host I¡¯m so used to is gone, replaced by a friendly neighborhood repairman, talking to the younger kids about all sorts of body parts, more specifically eyes and ears mostly, but they cover other parts briefly, like the beart, bones, and so on. And the reason for this? Of course, God! But unfortunately, Mr shopkeeper is not half as interesting as slimy suited dude, sorry

Reviewer: Wilford B. Wolf - - April 25, 2005
Subject: My body is a temple
Another in a series of religiously slanted science shorts from the 1950s, this time about the wonders of the human body. Again with its echoes of "intelligent design," this film runs down the various parts of the human body and how man can only make inferior copies of them. The emphasis, fairly early on, is about how God made these things.

While this is a curiousity with the religious aspect, it's a fairly standard science short wrapped around your friendly neighborhood fix-it shop owner. As such, it's neither mind bendingly bad, nor (un)intentionally funny... just sorta blah.