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624891
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Gaycken, Oliver
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Devices of curiosity : : early cinema and popular science /\ Oliver Gaycken
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xii, 254 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780199860685
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: 0199860688
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: 9780199860708
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: 019986070X
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9780199860692
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9780190235987
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Prologue: Where did these scorpions come from? -- "Revealing nature's closest secrets": F. Martin Duncan's popular-science films at the Charles Urban Trading Company -- Juggling flies and gravid plants: F. Percy Smith's early popular-science films -- "A drama unites them in a fight to the death": the flourishing of popular-science films in France, 1909-1914 -- A modern cabinet of curiosities: George Kleine's collection of popular-science films -- Popular science and crime melodrama: Louis Feuillade and the serial -- Conclusion: Round and round: from the somersaulting monkey to "bug workout"
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Science in motion pictures
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Science films-- History and criticism
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Motion pictures in science
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| Dewey Classification
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791.43/66
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PN1995.9.S265G39 2015
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