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Hemo the Magnificent is a one-hour Technicolor made-for-television educational film, released in 1957 by Bell Laboratories and directed by Frank Capra, and first telecast by CBS. It details the workings of the circulatory system.
It is one program in The Bell System Science Series, a series of nine Bell Telephone science specials telecast in prime time on commercial network television from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. All but one of these specials starred Prof. Frank C. Baxter; the last of them starred Walt Disney.
Original Release
03/20/1957
US Release
03/20/1957
Cast
Name | Character |
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Richard Carlson | Mr. Fiction Writer |
Frank Baxter | Dr. Research / Himself |
Mel Blanc | Squirrel / Turtle / Alligator / Rabbit / Rabbit (voice) |
June Foray | Deer / Bird |
Sterling Holloway | Lab assistant |
Marvin Miller | Hemo / Professor Anatomy |
Directors
Writers
Cast
Name | Character |
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Richard Carlson | Mr. Fiction Writer |
Frank Baxter | Dr. Research / Himself |
Mel Blanc | Squirrel / Turtle / Alligator / Rabbit / Rabbit (voice) |
June Foray | Deer / Bird |
Sterling Holloway | Lab assistant |
Marvin Miller | Hemo / Professor Anatomy |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Frank Capra | Producer |
Joseph Sistrom | Producer |