In the heart of CERN in 1967

A round trip through CERN, where you meet Lew Kowarski, Francis Perrin, Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr; where you listen to Emilio Picasso, Francis Farley, John Bailey, Bernard Gregory, Leon Van Hove, Giuseppe Cocconi; where you share discussion between theorists Jean Iliopoulos, Daniele Amati, John Bell and Jacques Prentki .......Begins with council session, announce of filming. Explanation of council and reasons for creating CERN, history of CERN. Explanation of what happens at CERN. (Anthoine to visitors) Lew Kowarsky. Picasso's explanation of G-2 experiment, a classic - "is very easy really" with Guido Franco as the person who is not a physicist who does not understand the explanation. 2 meter bubble chamber. Scanning. Computer centre. * Theorists at a blackboard. Cocconi giving conference and film portrait "when I was younger research was less expensive....one can't run counter to evolution. (with jazz background). Cafeteria. Johnsen explaining why building ISR. Gregory "highest energies and biggest laboratories...SPS" Van Hove: will there be conclusions or discoveries? chance always plays a part. Even if there is no immediate technological applications, there might be changes in man's way of thinking (ex. relativity theory)