There was a proposal to fund a NOVA show on microscopy presented when I
was a council member of the Microscopy Society of America back in the
late 1980s, or so. A script was professionally written that accompanied
the proposal, which I thought was excellent at the time. Updating would
be needed now, obviously. The proposal died when we discovered it would
cost $500,000 1980 dollars to actually create and broadcast the show.
Perhaps someone can find the proposal and script? I looked and can't
find it.
Ron Anderson
José A. Feijó wrote:
> check bioclips.com , a lot of stuff there on the subject, specially
> the presentation I tried to send but was rejected (dresdencinema2007_web)
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> not sure if it will pass, but I attach a presentation from
> Dresden_Cinema festival with a bunch of links and incredible stories.
> I haven't followed the trend, but I believe that was one of the plans
> of the organizers
>
> Badri Roysam escreveu:
>> I agree - this is a definite need. There ought to be a show on Nova or such
>> other program on microscopy. I am happy to contribute to such an effort!
>>
>>
>> Badri Roysam
>> Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering
>> Associate Director, NSF Center for Subsurface Sensing & Imaging Systems (CenSSIS ERC)
>> Co-Director, Rensselaer Center for Open Source Software
>> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: John Oreopoulos [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: A microscopy documentary
>>
>>
>>
>>> I'm a big fan of the documentary movie genre and the other day, while
>>> re-watching a couple episodes of Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" series, I
>>> thought to myself, "Why has no one put together a documentary about
>>> the history of microscopy?" Is anyone out there aware of such a
>>> thing? If not, would there be interest in the community to try and
>>> put something together by making use of the many open source tools on
>>> the web like youtube, etc. to do such a thing? I myself have never
>>> been a part of any home-made movie effort, but I would be willing to
>>> work with people to get a pet project like this going.
>>>
>>> There is a BBC documentary called Light Fantastic by Simon Schaffer
>>> which documents the history of optics and its impact on the world,
>>> and this is very much in the spirit of the kind of thing I had in
>>> mind, but it would be nice to see something exclusive for microscopy,
>>> perhaps talking about the stories of the scientists behind important
>>> developments in microscopy as well.
>>>
>>>
>>> John Oreopoulos, BSc,
>>> PhD Candidate
>>> University of Toronto
>>> Institute For Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering
>>> Centre For Studies in Molecular Imaging
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> .
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>>
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