Microscopic Movie Stars

this video is about the filming and the history of filming  microscopic organisms. The first person to film   these creatures wasRoman Vishniac.  In addition to the candid photography for which he is best known,Vishniac  worked heavily in the field of photomicroscopy, (specifically interference microscopyand cinemicroscopy). He specialized in photographing living insects and had a talent for arranging the moving specimens in "just the right poses", according to Philippe Halsman, former president of the American Society of Magazine Photographers. On the subject of Vishniac's skill in photomicroscopy, Halsman said he was, "a special kind of genius".^[3] He worked with all sorts of specimens, from protozoa, to fireflies to amino acids. Vishniac's work in photomicroscopy was, and is, highly regarded in the field. For three consecutive years, beginning in 1952, he won the Best-of-the-Show Award of the Biological Photographic Association in New York.^[3]

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