World Within Worlds

Duration: 0:23:00

Year Published: 1981

Creator: National Geographic Society

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Explores once impossible visual frontiers now made possible through new technologies and photographic breakthroughs. Observes how the scanning electron microscope; high-speed, time-lapse, X-ray, and ultraviolet photography; computer analysis; ultra-sound waves; Kirlian electrophotography, and internal electron stimulation have helped overcome the obstacles of time and size which in the past have rendered many things invisible to the human eye. Includes views of plankton inside a drop of water, body mites and bacteria which live on the skin and hair, individual grains of pollen, decay and growth, internal body movements, the soft tissue of a human fetus, the energy aura of animate and inanimate objects, and new ways of seeing for the blind. Edited version of, Explores once impossible visual frontiers now made possible through new technologies and photographic breakthroughs. Observes how the scanning electron microscope; high-speed, time-lapse, X-ray, and ultraviolet photography; computer analysis; ultra-sound waves; Kirlian electrophotography, and internal electron stimulation have helped overcome the obstacles of time and size which in the past have rendered many things invisible to the human eye. Includes views of plankton inside a drop of water, body mites and bacteria which live on the skin and hair, individual grains of pollen, decay and growth, internal body movements, the soft tissue of a human fetus, the energy aura of animate and inanimate objects, and new ways of seeing for the blind. Edited version of, In an attempt to show man things that he could not see with the naked eye, this film introduces time-lapse photography, the scanning electron microscope, ultra-violet photography, sound-imaging photography and Kirlian photography. Reveals how mold forms on food, cell division, the life of mites and the inexplicable auras around animate and inanimate objects.

Complete Record: , Explores once impossible visual frontiers now made possible through new technologies and photographic breakthroughs. Observes how the scanning electron microscope; high-speed, time-lapse, X-ray, and ultraviolet photography; computer analysis; ultra-sound waves; Kirlian electrophotography, and internal electron stimulation have helped overcome the obstacles of time and size which in the past have rendered many things invisible to the human eye. Includes views of plankton inside a drop of water, body mites and bacteria which live on the skin and hair, individual grains of pollen, decay and growth, internal body movements, the soft tissue of a human fetus, the energy aura of animate and inanimate objects, and new ways of seeing for the blind. Edited version of, In an attempt to show man things that he could not see with the naked eye, this film introduces time-lapse photography, the scanning electron microscope, ultra-violet photography, sound-imaging photography and Kirlian photography. Reveals how mold forms on food, cell division, the life of mites and the inexplicable auras around animate and inanimate objects. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.