# Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man

National Archives Identifier: 649452 Local Identifier: NWDNM (m)-255-HQ-245 Creator(s): National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 10/1/1958- (Most Recent) From: Series: Headquarters' Films Relating to Aeronautics, 1962 - 1981 Record Group 255: Records of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1903 - 2006 Details Level of Description: Item Type(s) of Archival Materials:Moving Images This item was produced or created:1975 The creator compiled or maintained the series between:1962 - 1981 Access Restriction(s):Unrestricted Use Restriction(s):Restricted - Possibly Note: Some or all of this material may be restricted by copyright or other intellectual property right restrictions. Edited:Edited Sound Type:Sound Accession Number(s):NN3-255-98-009 Online Resource(s):YouTube

This video is available on the U.S. National Archives' channel on YouTube. Subjects Represented in the Archival Material(s):Congresses and conventions Life on other planets

Contributors to Authorship and/or Production of the Archival Material(s): Drew Associates, Producer

Scope & Content

This film is an edited version of a symposium held at Boston University on November 20, 1972 that explores the implications of the possible existence of extraterrestrial life within the galaxy and the universe. The panel members were Dr. Richard Berendzen, astronomy professor and historian of science at Boston University; Dr. Ashley Montagu, anthropologist, social biologist and author at Rutgers University;…

- Kind: Documentary
- Year: 1975
- Runtime: 26 min
- By: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Drew Associates
- Genres: Documentary, Space
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Life_Beyond_Earth_and_the_Mind_of_Man.webm)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Drew Associates
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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