Jean Comandon
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Jean Comandon, pioneer of microcinematography, recorded this time-lapse film in c. 1910, using a ultramicroscope. The film show living spiral shaped syphilis bacteria moving among red blood cells of frog. Notice the back-and-forth movement, characterizing the disease-causing form. (Wikipedia)
Spirochoeta pallida (de la syphilis)
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Sang d'oiseau (Padda) infecté par un hématozoaire et phagocytose de ce parasite
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Lavez-vous les mains avant chaque repas
Film shot on May 16th 1917 for the Rockefeller Foundation's anti-tuberculosis propaganda campaign in France
Sanatorium militaire de Bligny
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Faune microscopique d'un Ă©tang en juillet
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Scènes de psychologie de l'enfant
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Vorticellidés
Stencil-colored time lapse film.
Épanouissement de quelques fleurs
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Bryozoaires d’eau douce
Study on Dactylaria brochopaga's predacious strategy
Predacious fungi
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La limnée
A scientific film on the formation of crystals at the expense of an amorphous precipitate.
Formation de cristaux aux dépens d’un précipité amorphe
Short film by Jean Comandon
Cinématographie radioscopique
One of the first to use the techniques of cinematography to study biological phenomena, Comandon accelerated his films, originally shot frame by frame, to depict a detailed view of nature only visible through the mechanical eye of the camera.