Summary

STORY OF THE MICROSCOPE

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Title: STORY OF THE MICROSCOPE
File Number: AFP-135AM 16mm VTM-135AM Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Educational
Year: 01/01/1941
Description: B W 1941 Educational film about microscopes, their history, manufacture and construction Contains historical recreations and microcinematography 00:22:45:00 B W 1941 ms Historical recreation showing Anton van Leeuwenhoek (1632 - 1723), Dutch naturalist who invented the microscope: man with long curly hair grinds lens with primitive mortar and pestle thing then he scrapes a sample from his assistant's mouth, puts it in tiny handheld microscope intercut with shots of protozoa and an amoeba (Unfortunately there is no CU shot of the original microscope) 00:23:40:00 B W 1941 Historical recreation of scenes from the career of Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), French chemist who studied germs: bearded man in laboratory mixes chemicals in test tubes vaccinates sheep cures boy with rabies [brief sequence of boy bitten by rabid dog, phony-looking] good shot of man touching sick boy's forehead as he sleeps, reads illness 00:26:07:00 B W 1941 ecu, ms PAN up body of a microscope (fairly modern looking one) modern scientist looking through microscope lots of bacteria swimming around 00:26:44:00 B W 1941 cu Little boy drinks milk, licks lips, smiles brief 00:26:49:00 B W 1941 ms Vaccination scene doctor's office or clinic: little boy gets up from chair, mother with baby sits down doctor gives injection to baby vaccination 00:27:40:00 B W 1941 cu Science experiments with beams of light and prism, showing how lenses bend and magnify light also at 0:30:52 00:28:07:00 B W 1941 ms Lens making sequence: workmen shovel sand sand is melted in furnace molten glass is mixed hot block of glass is removed from oven with tongs workman chips block of glass with hammer lens is ground on wheel 00:31:26:00 B W 1941 cu Microscope is assembled and parts demonstrated 00:32:10:00 B W 1941 cu Montage of microcinematography: beating heart of a chick embryo tiny blood vessel in a frog's foot malignant blood cells (blobby amoeba things) crystals forming rapidly 00:33:00:00 B W 1941 ms, cu Teenage boy looking through microscope he lets little girl look through
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