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From: perkins@bnrmtv.UUCP (Henry Perkins)
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Subject: Re: RACE FOR THE DOUBLE HELIX
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Date: Tue, 22-Sep-87 16:04:18 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 22 16:04:18 1987
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Summary: Every bit as good as Mark Leeper said, and more
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Mark Leeper's review of THE RACE FOR THE DOUBLE HELIX didn't go
far enough in praising this film.  Among other things, the
editing was superb.  I usually take advantage of my Beta HiFi
VCR's capability of playing at 2x normal speed (with sound) to
shorten the transition from scene to scene.  I couldn't do that
with THE RACE FOR THE DOUBLE HELIX; I had to back up and advance
at normal speed to avoid missing significant action or dialog.
In all the many transitions to scenes weeks/months/years later
the editing was very tight.

One very interesting point I noted is that the film was made with
the assistance of all the characters portrayed except for James
Watson and Rosalind Franklin.  Franklin died in 1958, five years
after they determined the structure of DNA and four years before
the Nobel Prize was awarded for the research.  The rules of the
Nobel committee do not allow posthumous awards.  I don't know
Watson's status.
-- 
{hplabs,amdahl,ames}!bnrmtv!perkins         --Henry Perkins

It is better never to have been born.  But who among us has such luck?
One in a million, perhaps.