(What is in the Hollywood district other than tourists looking for
"Hollywood"?)
I have a silly anecdote that does not answer Harry's question:
It must have been 1995 or 1996, the Beckman sales representative
appeared at my desk on a Friday afternoon without an appointment, but
carrying a bribe. The second Jurassic Park movie was going into
production, and the movie company had asked her to order a room full of
laboratory equipment so that the wet lab scenes would look credible to a
scientist viewer. As always, once production starts, everything has to
happen NOW, so the Beckman sales rep needed to borrow my VWR catalog
over the weekend. That's what the bribe was for.
For completeness, here's my financial involvement disclosure: I accepted
the bribe, which was a pastry, and I ate it. Despite the 10 HBO channels
in my apartment, I never saw the entire Jurassic Park 2 movie, so I
don't know if the wet lab scenes were retained.
That's completely off-topic,
Dan
harry powell wrote:
Hi
Not a question about films for recording X-rays on, but a question
about films about X-rays, Crystallography and related subjects!
I was wondering what ccp4bbers favourite movies involving real
science, especially crystallography might be? If they're from
Hollywood, though, I'd guess it should be "favorite"...
I'm a little tired, but the only one I can think of at the moment is
actually based on results from fibre diffraction - "Life Story", with
Jeff Goldblum. There must be others, though.
Harry
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Dr Harry Powell,
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,
Hills Road,
Cambridge,
CB2 0QH
