Friday, September 25, 2015

George Pal's Penicillin film : Sci Fi?

George Pal's pioneering sci fi films tended to exalt Big Science - so I have to wonder how he would have dealt with the classic example of small science - the DIY, tabletop,homegrown, artisan making of primitive penicillin.

For after all, this was the bigger and (dramatically as well as morally) better half of the wartime penicillin drama.

The side of the race to produce wartime penicillin that actually beat the long odds and won...

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