How Life Begins

The film was copyrighted twice in 1916, in three reel and one reel versions, and was also shown in a four-reel version. According to a December 1918 news item, the film, which had been in circulation almost constantly for at least two years and exhibited in schools, colleges, museums, and military training camps, was then going to be released for general distribution. George E. Stone was associated with the University of California at Berkeley, and J. A. Long was Assistant Professor of Embryology of the University of California. Carter Cinema Co. released How Life Begins in 1920, according to Wid's Year Book, 1920-21. Stone copyrighted a film entitled The Living World (see below) in 1920. It is possible that The Living World incorporated footage from How Life Begins or was a re-issue of the earlier film.