Search View Archive

Sonia Shechet Epstein

SONIA SHECHET EPSTEIN works at the intersection of science and film at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York.

Notes on Science and Film

Once it was engineered by Thomas Edison at the turn of the 19th century, moving image technology was modified by research scientists to observe what the eye could not. In the French production company Pathé’s studio, Dr. Jean Comandon affixed a camera to a microscope and filmed bacteria.

ADVERTISEMENTS
close

The Brooklyn Rail

JUNE 2023

All Issues