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David.Paterson@csiro.au
 
Default Oxford Scientific Films - The world you never see - How old?

I had a chance to watch a video "The world you never see" by Oxford
Scientific Films. It looks really old, but of excellent quality.

How old? No earlier than 1968 or later than 1982.

The cameras shown on the video were all old-fashioned film cameras. All
the scenes were shot in Oxford, or the surrounding countryside. It was
a compilation of short films, some of which must have been made
earlier.

The text was written by Colin Willock.
Narration by Peter Scott.

Photography by:
Gerald Thompson - hatching of a mosquito & a butterfly & egglaying of
an ichneumon fly
Peter Parkes - life in a drop of water & embryology of a hen's egg
John Cooke - segestria spider - had recently moved to the NY Museum of
natural history
John Paling - trout spawning & puffballs
David Thompson - mole in a tunnel
Sean Morris - slow motion bees landing and fast motion seedlings and
flowers

The highest technology of the time was described as "space satellites".

It was one of the Survival wildlife series, though this could have
happened later.

I really liked all of it but particularly the "life in a drop of water"
segment.

 
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