Re: A microscopy documentary

Posted by "José A. Feijó" on
URL: http://confocal-microscopy-list.275.s1.nabble.com/Fwd-Re-Importance-of-the-tube-lens-NA-tp2436781p2456543.html

check bioclips.com , a lot of stuff there on the subject, specially the presentation I tried to send but was rejected (dresdencinema2007_web)


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not sure if it will pass, but I attach a presentation from Dresden_Cinema festival with a bunch of links and incredible stories. I haven't followed the trend, but I believe that was one of the plans of the organizers

Badri Roysam escreveu:

I agree - this is a definite need. There ought to be a show on Nova or such
other program on microscopy. I am happy to contribute to such an effort!


Badri Roysam
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----- Original Message -----
From: John Oreopoulos [[hidden email]]
To: [hidden email]
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
University of Toronto
Institute For Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
Centre For Studies in Molecular Imaging



    

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