Now You See It
- IMDb link: 0039671
- IMDb rating: 6.7 (136 votes) Search
- Genres: Short, Documentary
- Director: Richard L. Cassell
- Cast: Pete Smith and others
- Release date: 20 Mar 1947
- Release year: 1947
- Runtime: 10 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: microphotography, 1940s, tongue, housefly, insect, hummingbird, mosquito, cat, lizard, caterpillar
Plot
Storyline
This Pete Smith Specialty demonstrates the uses of micro- and macrophotography. We see extreme closeups of the mechanical workings of a tiny wristwatch, the surface of a cat's tongue, and several insects.
An off-screen narrator introduces us to a series of images, asking if we can tell what each is. They are photographs of small objects, blown up to many times their actual size: the wheel and other moving parts of a woman's wristwatch; a cat's tongue; mosquito eggs, larvae, and an adult insect; a praying mantis; a fly and its eyes; each end of a caterpillar; a newly-hatched hummingbird; and, a lizard's eye. Sometimes we just see the object up close; in the case of the mosquito, we watch it grow from egg to feeding adult. There's time-lapse photography and an explanation of why it's hard to swat a fly.
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