This 1960 documentary was made by the Shell Film Unit and covers the different benefits of motion picture technology, more specifically that it has revealed things that the human eye would otherwise not be able to see. This includes a short history of pioneering techniques from moving pictures to time lapses and slow motion footage. It also covers how these different techniques have been used over time with applications in medicine, plant growth, and astronomy. The footage is mostly in black and white, and covers a rapid succession of different applications of these filming techniques.

0:20 A man looks through a microscope at flashing light, 0:32 Title “The Revealing Eye: A Shell Film”, 0:42 Cancer cells under the microscope, 0:53 Title slide explaining the benefits that cinematography has given to gain more insight into things the human eye can’t see, 1:20 a sequence of cat pictures to create a moving picture, 1:50 a series of images of a man jumping on the same photographic plate, 2:00 Individual strips of film of a cat falling to reveal motion, 2:50 Sequence of men riding horses, 3:18 True slow motion short of a man throwing a discus, 3:45 Slow motion of ballistics passing through bubbles, 4:09 Glass fracturing in slow motion, 4:50 Beans growing in a time lapse, 5:20 time lapses of different plants and flowers growing, 6:25 time lapse of fungi , 6:45 time lapse of different crystals, 7:32 Microscopic time lapses of blood flow and cell division, 8:20 time lapse of a chick embryo developing, 8:54 different forms of X ray cinematography such as a dogs movement and a human stomach, 9:26 X ray of a human drinking and swallowing, 9:41 X ray recording of a human speaking in German, 10:22 high speed camera showing movement of a fly’s wing, 10:58 various slow motion shots of action in water such as discharge of torpedoes or drops of water from an atomizer, 11:42 Slow motion wood being cut, 11:57 Production of nails in slow motion, 12:24 Slow motion of the insertion of a foreign object into a running jet engine, 12:43 Time lapse of the movement of a glacier, 12:56 Flickering of the Northern Lights, 13:08 Shots of the curvature of the earth as a rocket takes off, 13:48 Several shots of the movement of celestial bodies such as the moon and Jupiter, 14:28 a close up of the surface of the sun, 14:47 time lapse of solar ejections shooting into space, 15:09 Dark Brown Delamination to reveal cell activity in malignant tissue, 15:35 Camera shot of changes in pressure around an aircraft wing in black and white and color, 15:57 Hot and cold water mixing in color, 16:15 footage of stress caused by a train on a rail, 16:42 Observing the reflex action of the pupil of the eye, 16:55 footage from inside of the body such as the lung, womb, and abdomen, 17:29 Time lapse of the sun setting, 17:52 Closing credits “Made by Shell Film Unit” and list of special thanks including Physics Laboratory at John Hopkins University.

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