The Secret Life Of 118 Green Street

When you idly scratch your arm, those dead skin flakes that fall to the carpet do not go to waste. You're actually serving dinner to a whole army of dust mites. This is just one of the interesting tidbits about the "unseen world" around our happy homes you'll learn from watching the outstanding World of Discovery episode The Secret Life of 118 Green Street and I'll bet you're thinking you could have gone your whole life without that particular piece of knowledge. Well, how about this one: flies regurgitate before they eat. That's correct; by the time you've brushed that pesky fly away from your chicken and artichoke salad, he's already hawked a major phlegm ball onto your Romaine lettuce. Want more? Sponging a kitchen counter is one of the best ways to spread bacteria. Narrated by Buck Henry, the program follows the fictional Herbert family through an ordinary day of eating, cleaning, sneezing, and sleeping, using computer graphics, magnification, time- lapse segments, infrared shots, and slow-motion photography. Viewers will see the beauty of a drop of water falling, the birth of an ice cube, and what "ring around the collar" really looks like at 400X (we're talking MOUNTAIN RANGES OF DIRT Not since the award-winning Powers of 10 have I seen a film that so successfully changed my perceptions of the world. I now understand Howard Hughes as if we were blood brethren, and have taken to looking at medical supply catalogs with renewed interest. You can't be too careful: especially since there are roughly as many bacteria on your body right now as there are people on Earth. a CINE Golden Eagle winner, this is highly recommended. Editor's Choice. (R. Pitman)