Article ID: CBB686860222

Shooting Chicken Embryos: The Making of Ludwig Gräper’s Embryological Films, 1911–1940 (2021)

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In 1939 and 1940 the Reich Office for Teaching Films (Reichsstelle für den Unterrichtsfilm [RfdU]), the film organization of the National Socialist German government, published three educational films on the early development of the chicken embryo. They were the result of Ludwig Gräper’s (1882–1937) experimental investigations of the embryology of birds. In the course of his research, the German embryologist continuously made, used, and reused film material for epistemic and educational purposes. The history of the production of these films is an early example of the ways in which film was introduced into the experimental life sciences. Gräper’s films were experimental in three ways: as recordings of his experiments, as part of his experimental system, and as a new way to secure funding for his work.

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Article Anja Sattelmacher; Mario Schulze; Sarine Waltenspül (2021) Introduction: Reusing Research Film and the Institute for Scientific Film. Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 291-298). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Waltenspül, Sarine
Schulze, Mario
Sattelmacher, Anja
Hopwood, Nick
Olszynko-Gryn, Jesse
Scholz, Juliane
Concepts
Visual representation; visual communication
Science education and teaching
Science and film
Research methods
Embryology
Biology
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
Germany
Great Britain
United States
Japan
China
Institutions
Interessengemeinschaft Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft
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