J.B.S. Haldane

This film shows experiments performed by Soviet scientists reviving the lungs, heart, and even the head of a dead dog.

The resurrection of dead dogs in Russia in the 1930s. An unstoppable heart in the US half a century later. And now in London, a hand-made heart attack. How a strange, paradoxical discovery is helping to save lives.

A stark warning about Britain’s coal-fired smog, charting its damage to health, buildings, and the economy while advocating cleaner gas/electric power, processed smokeless fuels, and better housing—presaging the Great Smog of 1952 and the Clean Air Act of 1956.