Part of acclaimed filmmaker Frank Capra's "Wonders of Life" series of science-based films (which won an Emmy Award for Best Editing) teaches kids about the power of gamma rays and radiation.
Richard Carlson
The Fiction Writer
Frank Baxter
Dr. Research (as Dr. Frank Baxter)
Mae West
Miss Ultraviolet (voice, archive footage)
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays is a animation, family film released in 1957 exploring themes of physics, puppetry, educational, nuclear, dostoevsky, live action and animation. Directed by William T. Hurtz, it stars Richard Carlson, Frank Baxter, Mae West. Part of acclaimed filmmaker Frank Capra's "Wonders of Life" series of science-based films (which won an Emmy Award for Best Editing) teaches kids about the power of gamma rays and radiation.
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