© CNRS Audiovisuel France 1990

Slow motion picture and tachycineradography

Reference

108

Duration

00:06:00

Production year

1990

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Original material

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Summary

Ecological film-maker Alain R. Devez and Jean-Pierre Gasc, researcher at the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, explain the principle of "tachycineradiography" at 500 frames a second, which enables observation of the skeletons of small vertebrates in movement, slowed down to 1/20th normal speed.

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