# Exploring the Spectrum (Part 2)

Content advisory: Depiction of carceral labor, with incarcerated people gardening. Depiction and description of animal experimentation and cruelty to animals. Although the depictions are presented in still image format and heavily contextualized in the narration their appearance in a film whose title suggests a subject matter of physics and optics has the potential to shock. Narrated research film that is substantially dependent on still images for its visual content. The narration, while rooted in science, also ranges to realms of inquiry that have been debunked as pseudoscience. Narration explains many related theories and experiments relating to the effects of light, and light deprivation, on plants, animals, and people. With discussion of the impact of psychedelic culture affecting light curation in an aquarium, and with time-lapse photography of young children with behavior problems purportedly responding in a beneficial way to modifications in the types of fluorescent light they are being exposed to. Also with discussions of epidemiological effects of light, and the purported danger of television waves. See item 205083 for Part 1. An uncritical description published in the 16mm film guide produced by International Film Bureau Inc., states: "Exploring the Spectrum records John Ott's observations of the correlations between plant and animal health and exposure to both the visible and the non-visible rays of the total electromagnetic spectrum. His observations have…

- Kind: Film
- By: John Ott Pictures, Henry Ott Films
- Genres: Science, Nature, Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/205084_Exploring_the_Spectrum_P2)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- 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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