Nerdy Science Blog

This video by NewScientist showed the first science films including cheese mites and juggling flies.  My favourite is juggling flies.  I wonder how they tie the fly.

There’s an article written by Stephanie Pain titled “Microscopic stars of the silver screen“.

What sort of science films would people pay to see? Natural history was the obvious choice. There had always been plenty of gentleman amateurs who travelled, collected or busied themselves with a microscope, but by Edwardian times natural history was practically the national hobby. Legions of working people spent their leisure time rambling, birdwatching and collecting butterflies. Nature was the perfect subject for films - particularly if they revealed aspects of nature people never normally saw. They would astound. They would amuse. And they would appeal to another peculiarly British trait - a desire to learn something useful, so long as it didn’t require much effort. Most importantly, Urban reckoned they would make him lots of money.

Back then every animals had one minute to become famous.