Film for consultation only

At The Edge of the Unknown

Life in a Research Center

Reference

1267

Duration

00:46:00

Production year

1951

Versions

Original material

SD
4/3
Color
Sound

Director(s)

Eric DUVIVIER

Summary

History and presentation of the Centre de Recherches Scientifiques Industrielles et Maritimes (CRSIM) located in Marseille and of the researches carried out there. This organization, whose three main axes are basic research, technical research in collaboration with the local industry, and applied research in association with the French Navy and the Defense, has been created in 1941. It owns an important center of bibliographical research and library. This film shows the different laboratories devoted to: acoustics, optics, chemistry, the X-ray…

Scientific topics

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