Video (3min 31sec): The First Science Films. Watch cheese mites, juggling flies and other clips from the first science films created in Britain.
"In August 1903, this film made its debut at the Alhambra Theater in London. It's stars are cheese mites crawling through a piece of Stilton. But on the big screen they looked a lot more like 8-legged aliens. It wa an instant hit and marked the beginning of science and nature film making."
"The original film is just a minute long and it just shows cheese mites shot down a microscope. There has been a story put about that the cheese manufacturers complained about the cheese mites film."
"'Cheese Mites' was produced by Francis Martin Duncan, an amateur natural historian, who had previously published books on how to take photos through microscopes..."
