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Cultivation of living tissue Part 1 (1933)

1933 · Short film · 16 min

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Tissue culture living cells cultivated in vitro shown in time-lapse. There is a long explanatory intertitle at the beginning which includes how the images are captured. This is then demonstrated. Embryonic cells are shown in time-lapse (speeded up 960 times). Wandering cells and fibroblasts cell division. There is a hand drawing of a fibroblast, with annotations. Daughter cells. Chromosome arrangement. Phagocytosis dgenerative culture of the central nervous system (note there is a clock in the corner to illustrate time passing). Dark ground illustration polarisation of the sequence illuminating the internal cellular structure. End of Part 1.

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