Human and animal beginnings

United States, 1966

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Presents basic information about human reproduction and concepts of the family. Includes baby monkeys and mice, newborn guinea pigs and rabbits, with time-lapse photography of a hatching chicken egg and fish eggs. Animated sequences showing prebirth growth and development, and birth itself. Also shows scenes of babies in the hospital nursery home.

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