Jean Comandon

Spirochoeta pallida (de la syphilis)

Jean Comandon

Jean Comandon, pioneer of microcinematography, recorded this time-lapse film in c. 1910, using a ultramicroscope. The film show living spiral shaped syphilis bacteria moving among red blood cells of frog. Notice the back-and-forth movement, characterizing the disease-causing form. (Wikipedia)

Cinématographie radioscopique

Jean Comandon

Short film by Jean Comandon

Épanouissement de quelques fleurs

Émile Labrely, Jean Comandon

Stencil-colored time lapse film.

Dactylaria brochopaga

Jean Comandon

Study on Dactylaria brochopaga's predacious strategy

Lavez-vous les mains avant chaque repas

Jean Comandon

Scènes de psychologie de l'enfant

Jean Comandon

Formation de cristaux aux dépens d’un précipité amorphe

Jean Comandon, Pierre de Fonbrune

A scientific film on the formation of crystals at the expense of an amorphous precipitate.

Sang d'oiseau (Padda) infecté par un hématozoaire et phagocytose de ce parasite

Jean Comandon

La Croissance des végétaux

Jean Comandon

One of the first to use the techniques of cinematography to study biological phenomena, Comandon accelerated his films, originally shot frame by frame, to depict a detailed view of nature only visible through the mechanical eye of the camera.