The Body

The Body (1970)

A psychedelic documentary of the body electric, with music by Pink Floyd. The film was directed and produced by Roy Battersby. The film's narrators, Frank Finlay and Vanessa Redgrave, provide commentary that combines the knowledge of human biologists and anatomical experts. The film's soundtrack, Music from the Body, was composed by Ron Geesin and Roger Waters.

Date of release
1970-10-09
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (9)
Runtime
1h 52m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Roy Battersby

Casting

Interesting facts

The Body is a 1970 British scientific documentary film directed and produced by Roy Battersby. In the film, external and internal cameras are used to showcase the human body.

Production

The film was "suggested by" a science book by Anthony Smith.

The cost of optioning film rights and developing the project to take to market cost £11,000 which was financed by the National Film Finance Corporation (NFFC). After a year, by December 1969 Battersby had a script. He showed this to the NFFC which resulted in another draft of the script. The NFFC agreed to provide half of the finance.

Battersby shot about 300,000 feet of film of which 11,000 were used. "There was a lot of blood and film on the cutting room floor," said Garnett.

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