Try National
Geographic's Invisible World. I saw it when I was about 12 and it set off
my passion for microscopy for life.
Cheers
Ray G
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Subject: A microscopy documentary
I'm a big fan of the documentary movie genre and the other day, while
re-watching a couple episodes of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series, I
thought to myself, "Why has no one put together a documentary about the
history of microscopy?" Is anyone out there aware of such a thing? If not,
would there be interest in the community to try and put something together by
making use of the many open source tools on the web like youtube, etc. to do
such a thing? I myself have never been a part of any home-made movie effort,
but I would be willing to work with people to get a pet project like this
going.
There is a BBC documentary called Light Fantastic by Simon
Schaffer which documents the history of optics and its impact on the
world, and this is very much in the spirit of the kind of thing I had in mind,
but it would be nice to see something exclusive for microscopy, perhaps talking
about the stories of the scientists behind important developments in microscopy
as well.
John
Oreopoulos, BSc,
PhD Candidate
Institute
For Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
Centre
For Studies in Molecular Imaging
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