F Percy Smith 1880 - 1945

occupation:
Filmmaker, Naturalist, Photographer
Nationality:
British
born in:
London

Naturalist and early nature documentary pioneer working for Charles Urban, where he pioneered the use of time lapse and micro cinematography.

Naval photographer during WW1. Worked for British Instructional Films on the 'Secrets of Nature' series. Desth recorded as suicide by coal gas poisoning.

Related Objects

Cut-Out Diagrams for Animated Work on Nature Studies

Part of Apparatus used in Filming Development of a Chick Embryo

Album of photographs by F Percy Smith