Folder of 22 drawings of lantern slide studies by F Percy Smith

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Diatoms are a form of single celled algae that can be found in most acquatic habitats, they are the only organisms on earth whose cell walls are made of silica.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Diatoms are a form of single celled algae that can be found in most acquatic habitats, they are the only organisms on earth whose cell walls are made of silica.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Astromma Aristotelis is the source of phosphorescence in sea water.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Nebela is a group of amoeba which have a thin, transparent test (a kind of shell) which protects them from predators. these tests can be generated by the amoeba themselves or constructed from particles of sediment fused with their own secretions.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Haematococcus Pluvialis (also known as Haematococcus lacustris is a freshwater, unicellular micro organism which is a source of natural astaxanthin, an antioxidant.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Phacus Longicaudus (or Longicauda) is a species of fresh water algae

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Bursaria Truncatella is a single celled organism, which can grow up to 1mm long. They live in freshwater environments and are able to ingest other single celled organisms and algae.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Dileptus Folium is a unicellular organism whih lives in both fresh and salt water as well as in moses and soils.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Spirostomum Ambiguum is a single celled organism which is mainly found in sediment deposits at the bottom of acquatic habitats.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Coleps Hirtus is a sinble celled organism which is found in water. It feeds directly on other microbes including bacteria.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Philodina Aculeata (also known as Dissotrocha aculeata) is a microscopic organism which lives in water and damp environments.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Chaetonotus Larus is a microscopic organism which lives within freshwater and marine environments, the majority existing residing between particles of sediment or on othe sumberged surfaces.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Spirogyra is a green algae named for the spiral arrangement of its chloroplasts. Some of it's common names include water silk, mermaid's tresses and blanket weed.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Micrasterias Rotata is a unicellular green algae which grows in freshwater, particularly lakes and bogs.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Diatoms are a form of single celled algae that can be found in most acquatic habitats, they are the only organisms on earth whose cell walls are made of silica.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Carchesium Polypinum are single celled organisms which are found in freshwater ponds and lakes and also in sewage treatment works.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".

Amoeba proteus is a large species of amoeba. It uses extensions called pseudopodia to move and to eat smaller unicellular organisms. Food is enveloped inside the cell's cytoplasm where it is slowly broken down by enzymes. They live in freshwater environments and feed on protozoans, algae and other smaller amoebae.

Frank Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. He was keen to exploit the educational possibilities of film and began working for Charles Urban, who had been impressed with his photograph of a bluebottle's tongue. During his time working for Urban he produced numerous scientific films, most notably The Balancing Bluebottle (also known as The Acrobatic Fly) and the Kinemacolor production The Birth of a Flower (both 1910).

During the First World War, Smith made a series of films depicting battles through animated maps and worked as a Naval photographer. When the war was over he turned to comedy with The Bedtime Stories of

Archie the Ant (1925), featuring insect characters in a natural environment. However it was the series 'Secrets of Nature' he made for British Instructional Films which allowed him to go back to the educational possibilities of documentary film. Blending nature photography with painstaking laboratory work, Smith and his team produced a steady stream of titles embracing nature's minutiae, from the life cycle of a sweet pea to the 'home-wrecking' tendencies of the cuckoo. Beginning in 1922, the series continued into the 1930s and the sound era, with commentary working equally well as inter-titles.

Smith was a true pioneer, inventing original methods for time lapse and micro cinematography, involving all kinds of home-made devices, including alarms all over his home to wake him up in the middle of the night if the film in the camera needed changing. With endless patience, he could spend up to two and a half years completing a film. He also had the popular touch, with the happy knack (as he put it himself) of being able to feed his audience "the powder of instruction in the jam of entertainment".