Event
Science on Screen: Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Real Art Ways’ new season of Science on Screen® invites you to experience the creative pairing of a feature film and a thought-provoking talk from a notable area scientist. This year, we will be presenting this series at the Connecticut Science Center.
UPDATE as of 6/19: Due to a scheduling conflict, vertebrate paleontologist Dalton Meyer (PhD in Earth and Planetary Sciences at Yale) will be giving the talk instead of Professor Bhullar.
From his earliest days, Meyer knew he wanted to be a paleontologist. While dinosaurs were his first love, his curiosity led him to study mosasaurs, a group of giant lizards that evolved to become marine. A serendipitous meeting with a Yale researcher brought him to New Haven for his PhD studies.
Film Synopsis
Harried paleontologist David Huxley (Cary Grant) has to make a good impression on society matron Mrs. Random (May Robson), who is considering donating one million dollars to his museum. On the day before his wedding, Huxley meets Mrs. Random’s high-spirited young niece, Susan Vance (Katharine Hepburn), a madcap adventuress who immediately falls for the straitlaced scientist. The ever-growing chaos, including a missing dinosaur bone and a pet leopard, threatens to swallow him whole.
Program
3:00 pm: Professor Bhart-Anjan Bhullar from Yale’s Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences will lead a discussion on the rich history of paleontology in Connecticut.
3:30 pm: Screening of Bringing Up Baby
Professor Bhart-Anjan Bhullar is the Associate Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences at Yale University and the Associate Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Vertebrate Zoology for the Yale Peabody Museum in New Haven. His work focuses on great transitions in the history of vertebrates.
Science on Screen is an initiative of the COOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE, with major support from the ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION.
