Synopsis
Irwin Moon demonstrates the electric eel's ability to shock its prey and sense fish by electric field; a 1954 Moody Institute of Science film.
Synopsis, reviewed
Details
- Running time
- 11 minutes
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★★ · Nice film, throughly enjoyable · Juan Schwarz · 2006-10-26
I really liked this film, after having known really "interesting" educational films from the 60s and 70s it's nice to see a film which is made quite interestingly, even with synchronous dialogue... something none of my few educational films from Germany have. The film itself is quite enlighting (no pun intended :D), since it shows in a (in my opinion) rather interesting view of this animal. I liked the "shocking-people-idea"... truly a mad scientist :D. Really great...
★★★★★ · Man's wisdom is foolishness to GOd :) · melanie3 · 2011-07-27
These Moody Science videos are great. Not too long, not boring and effective as well as telling the truth about creation and how intelligent it is.
★★★★ · You're Mad, MAD, I Tell You!! · Christine Hennig · 2006-01-21
OK, folks. You think mad scientists donÃÂÃÂt exist? Check out the guy in this film. Oh, heÃÂÃÂs not building monsters out of spare body parts or experimenting with hideous mutations. That would be too obvious. No, real mad science is an attitude, a frame of mind. Check out the look on his face when he fingers the machete or gives a nasty shock from the eel to a group of unsuspecting, innocent creationists. Now do you believe me? IÃÂÃÂd report his hideous experiments to the police, but that would get me killed. Besides, heÃÂÃÂs in a Christian film, so that makes everything he does morally…
★★★ · I feel eel or Whaddya know, Eel Joe? · Wilford B. Wolf · 2005-11-18
Another of the Moody Institute science films, this one having the least religious content, with only a very brief mention of God at the very end. The film focuses on the physiology of the electic eel, as Irwin notes, is not truly an eel, but part of the carp family. The film is clearly aimed at a more general audience, with the use of very non-technical terms; for example, the electrical impulses that the eel sends out is called "radar". Bizarrely, the eel is given the name of "Joe". However, there is still some interesting, if dated information, on how the eel is able to produce the…
