Abstract
This essay investigates time-lapse cinematography as a hybrid, intermedial practice. To interrogate practices of authorship, publication, copying, storage, and especially distribution, it recovers the history of The Embryonic Development of Drosophila melanogaster, a film made by Eric Lucey at the University of Edinburgh in 1956. An unusually rich archive makes it possible to recover uses and reuses of time-lapse footage in research, teaching, and other forms of communication.
Highlights
The term “intermediality” is used by film and media scholars to evoke the continual dialogue between different forms of mass communication in a larger culture of production and consumption—for instance, the book of the movie or the movie of the book.[1]
To interrogate practices of authorship, publication, copying, storage, and especially distribution, it recovers the history of The Embryonic Development of Drosophila melanogaster, a film made by Eric Lucey at the University of Edinburgh in 1956
We have histories that focus on one medium (x-ray photographs, microscope slides, laboratory manuals) and explicitly or implicitly “intermedial” studies, notably of three-dimensional models and of moving images.[2]
Summary
The term “intermediality” is used by film and media scholars to evoke the continual dialogue between different forms of mass communication in a larger culture of production and consumption—for instance, the book of the movie or the movie of the book.[1]. Filming Fly Eggs: Time-Lapse Cinematography as an Intermedial Practice
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