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Endless Chain

Creator(s): Department of Energy. 10/1/1977- (Most Recent) Series: Moving Images Relating to Energy, 1977 - 1985 Record Group 434: General Records of the Department of Energy, 1915 - 2007 Date: 1971 Description: A poetic, intimate look at the "endless chain of life" in the desert: the ceaseless transfer of the sun's energy to plants, to insects, and to animals. We see the life-death cycle, as energy passes from a plant . . . to a beetle . . . a pocket mouse . . . a snake . . . a hawk—and the cycle is completed as bird droppings washed down by rain become nutrients for plants. But man eventually intrudes, threatening the environment essential to his own existence. Will man and his mishandling of nature end acceptable conditions on earth? To save the environment, one must understand it. Here in Washington State, Project ALE (Arid Lands Ecology) is an ecological study sanctuary set aside by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to investigate arid lands representative of two-thirds of the Earth's land. Since the ecology of arid lands offers an ideal opportunity to understand nature's endless chain, a team of scientists from Battelle-Northwest, representing all the varied life sciences, investigate the plants, animals and interacting food chains of the desert. We watch as the scientists search for data, later preserved and stored by computers, with the ultimate objective of achieving guidelines so man can learn to protect the delicate web of life around him and his irreplaceable environment. The film was produced by documentarian Tom Beemer. A no-narration version of the film was released in 1972, titled Web of Life: Endless Chain. Description adapted from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s 1972 Combined Film. Description adapted from the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission’s 1972 Combined Film Catalog: http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED0... Contact(s): National Archives at College Park - Motion Pictures (RDSM), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 301-837-3540, Fax: 301-837-3620, Email: mopix@nara.gov National Archives Identifier: 88310 Local Identifier: 434.457 National Archives Catalog: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/88310