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Correspondence: Salata, Theodore (Orbit Communications)

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Correspondence with Orbit Communications regarding a proposal to make an audio-visual recording of a lecture by Crick entitled "The Genetic Code," to be delivered "at a mutually convenient time and place" (Salata to Crick, 12 March 1969).

Orbit proposed 3 June, 1969 (London) as a possible recording date.  However, in a letter dated 10 June, 1969, Crick is informed of marketing delays preventing Orbit from meeting their "original deadline of the 1969 scholastic year" and the consequent postponement of production schedules "by approximately six months."  The file includes a detailed list of "Possible Animation Sequences, "but there is no indication that the recording took place.

Advance printed publicity lists not only Crick's lecture but also a lecture by Max Perutz entitled "The structure and function of haemoglobin," for which the file contains a contract with Perutz (dated 5 February, 1969, bearing his signature).

Also included is a photocopy of a letter to Orbit from Arthur Kornberg requesting contractual changes (Kornberg is listed in advance publicity as delivering a lecture entitled "Enzymatic synthesis of DNA").

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Correspondence: Salata, Theodore (Orbit Communications)

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