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“A Casual Glance Reveals a Perfect Mine of Treasures”

Seeing Seeing

Moving Images

Documentary Plasticity

A Companion to Documentary Film History, 2021

Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (review)

The Moving Image, 2008

A Drama Unites Them in a Fight to the Death': Some remarks on the flourishing of a cinema of scientific vernacularization in France, 1909-1914

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2002

... The footage in the fi lm could have come from a number of the fi lms on the topic: Air liquid... more ... The footage in the fi lm could have come from a number of the fi lms on the topic: Air liquide ou 140 degrés de froid (Gaumont, July 1909), 139 m; L&#x27;Air liquide (Eclipse, January 1910), 124 m; Air liquide et ses ... A climactic battle as fi nale is a common occurrence in these fi lms [41 ...

Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular

Tod Browning and the Monstrosity of Hollywood Style

Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability

The secret life of plants: Visualizing vegetative movement, 1880–1903

Early Popular Visual Culture, 2012

As devices of motion analysis were introduced into botanical research in the late nineteenth cent... more As devices of motion analysis were introduced into botanical research in the late nineteenth century, Charles and Francis Darwin, Wilhelm Pfeffer, and investigators at the Marey Institute used a variety of techniques to visualize plant movements whose slowness rendered them otherwise imperceptible. These ‘time-lapse’ images provided novel visual records that initially were seen as providing evidence of an evolutionary link

Documentary Plasticity

A Companion to Documentary Film History

Science is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painleve (review)

Modernism/modernity, 2002

Transmission of electrical signals by spin-wave interconversion in a magnetic insulator

Nature, 2010

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‘Don’t You Mean Extinct?’

The living picture": on the circulation of microscope-slide knowledge in 1903

History and philosophy of the life sciences, 2013

Microscope slides allowed preparations to circulate among scientific and educational contexts. An... more Microscope slides allowed preparations to circulate among scientific and educational contexts. An extension of the circulation of microscope slides was how they became part of lantern exhibition culture. This article considers an early example of the adoption of microscope lantern show conventions by another medium, the cinema. E Martin Duncan, who was employed by Charles Urban to produce a series of popular-science films beginning in 1903, brought his experience with microphotography to bear on the challenge of adapting cinema to the purpose of public instruction. Duncan's first series of films, entitled "The Unseen World," demonstrated both profound links to the display tradition of the lantern lecture as well as the transformation of that tradition by the cinema's representational possibilities.

Through the Body with Laser Gun and Camera

Film ist. (1–6): An Exemplary Use of the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica

Isis, 2021

The compilation film is the best-known example of recycling in cinema history. The uses to which ... more The compilation film is the best-known example of recycling in cinema history. The uses to which this mode has been put in the domain of the science film, however, have received scant attention. Gustav Deutsch’s Film ist. (1–6) (1998), an experimental work that consists entirely of science films, has been interpreted as following the compilation film’s typical aesthetic procedures—namely, going against the grain of the images it reworks. However, by contextualizing a significant source for Deutsch’s film—the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica project—a different relationship between source materials and their recycled use emerges. In certain sequences, Deutsch’s film does not contradict or radically transform the meaning of the source material. Rather, Film ist. (1–6) occasionally adopts the editing patterns suggested by the unusual formal features of the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica, thus constituting an instance of the isomorphism of art and science.

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Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible by Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers (review)

Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé by James Leo Cahill

Film Quarterly

Chapter 11. American Essays In How To Build A Home: Thoreau, Mekas, Proenneke

The Essay Film, 2016

Engel der Effizienz: eine Mediengeschichte der Unternehmensberatung

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2016

Introduction on Displaying knowledge: intermedial education

Early Popular Visual Culture, 2015

“A Casual Glance Reveals a Perfect Mine of Treasures”

Seeing Seeing

Moving Images

Documentary Plasticity

A Companion to Documentary Film History, 2021

Encyclopedia of Early Cinema (review)

The Moving Image, 2008

A Drama Unites Them in a Fight to the Death': Some remarks on the flourishing of a cinema of scientific vernacularization in France, 1909-1914

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2002

Devices of Curiosity: Cinema and the Scientific Vernacular

Tod Browning and the Monstrosity of Hollywood Style

Screening Disability: Essays on Cinema and Disability

The secret life of plants: Visualizing vegetative movement, 1880–1903

Early Popular Visual Culture, 2012

Documentary Plasticity

A Companion to Documentary Film History

Science is Fiction: The Films of Jean Painleve (review)

Modernism/modernity, 2002

Transmission of electrical signals by spin-wave interconversion in a magnetic insulator

Nature, 2010

Download

‘Don’t You Mean Extinct?’

The living picture": on the circulation of microscope-slide knowledge in 1903

History and philosophy of the life sciences, 2013

Through the Body with Laser Gun and Camera

Film ist. (1–6): An Exemplary Use of the Encyclopaedia Cinematographica

Isis, 2021

Download

Realizing the Witch: Science, Cinema, and the Mastery of the Invisible by Richard Baxstrom and Todd Meyers (review)

Zoological Surrealism: The Nonhuman Cinema of Jean Painlevé by James Leo Cahill

Film Quarterly

Chapter 11. American Essays In How To Build A Home: Thoreau, Mekas, Proenneke

The Essay Film, 2016

Engel der Effizienz: eine Mediengeschichte der Unternehmensberatung

Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 2016

Introduction on Displaying knowledge: intermedial education

Early Popular Visual Culture, 2015

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