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| Doğum yeri | London, England |
| Doğum günü | 1880-01-12 |
| Ölüm | 1945-03-24 |
| Ayrıca şöyle bilinir | Percy Smith Frank Percy Smith |
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A distinguished pioneer of scientific filmmaking, Percy Smith was born in London in 1880. Working as a clerk at the Board of Education, Percy began to photograph the natural world around him, nursing a lifelong fascination with all manner of plant and animal life. His close-up photograph of a bluebottle's tongue caught the attention of film entrepreneur Charles Urban, who quickly began to exhibit Percy's work in London theatres. After the considerable success of sequences such as The Balancing Bluebottle, where he recorded flies juggling, Percy finally joined Urban as a full-time filmmaker in 1910. Before the outbreak of the First World War, Percy completed over fifty nature films for the Urban Sciences series including, in 1910, the famous piece, The Birth of a Flower. An early example of stop-motion photography, the film was hugely popular. Meticulously researching his subjects, Percy devised ingenious ways to film slow-growing plant life - modifying his equipment with gramophone needles, candle wicks and other assorted objects, allowing him to continue filming plant movement even as he slept. In 1911 his study, The Strength and Agility of Insects sparked a huge press debate - detailing a range of insects as they lift tiny dumbbells, twirl matchsticks and juggle objects much heavier than themselves he had to dispel rumours of trickery and cruelty by revealing his innovative filming techniques. Percy went on to serve as a naval photographer during the War and, upon his return, began work for British Instructional Films (BIF). Contributing to the company's widely acclaimed Secrets of Nature series he worked on numerous films, including An Aquarium in a Wineglass (1926), The Home Wrecker (1929) and Magic Myxies (1931). He continued to work on the project in the 1930s when it became known as Secrets of Life and in 1939 published Secrets of Nature, a review of the filming techniques used throughout the series. (via wildfilmhistory.org)
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| 2016 | Minute Bodies: The Intimate World of F. Percy Smith - Cinematography |
| 1945 | Fresh As a Daisy - Director of Photography |
| 1944 | Memories - Director of Photography |
| 1943 | The Life History of the Onion - Director of Photography |
| 1943 | The Life Cycle of the Pin Mould - Director of Photography |
| 1942 | The Life Cycle of the Newt - Director of Photography |
| 1942 | Overlooked - Director of Photography |
| 1942 | Singing While They Work - Director of Photography |
| 1942 | The Life Cycle of the Maize - Director of Photography |
| 1940 | Wisdom of the Wild - Director |
| 1938 | The Tough 'un - Director of Photography |
| 1938 | Far and Wide - Director of Photography |
| 1938 | The Catch of the Season - Director of Photography |
| 1936 | Life in the Balance - Director of Photography |
| 1936 | New Generation - Director of Photography |
| 1936 | Safety First - Director of Photography |
| 1936 | He Would a-Wooing Go - Director of Photography |
| 1936 | Lupins - Director of Photography |
| 1935 | Cabbage - Director of Photography |
| 1935 | A Queer Diet - Director of Photography |
| 1935 | White Flies and Tomatoes - Director of Photography |
| 1935 | Mixed Bathing - Director of Photography |
| 1935 | Thistledown - Director of Photography |
| 1934 | Roots - Director of Photography |
| 1933 | Gathering Moss - Director |
| 1933 | Gathering Moss - Director of Photography |
| 1933 | Brewster's Magic - Director |
| 1933 | Amazing Maize - Director of Photography |
| 1933 | Brewster's Magic - Director of Photography |
| 1932 | Romance in a Pond - Director |
| 1932 | Romance in a Pond - Director of Photography |
| 1932 | Nature's Double Lifters - Director of Photography |
| 1931 | The World in a Wine-Glass - Director |
| 1931 | The World in a Wine-Glass - Director of Photography |
| 1931 | Magic Myxies - Director |
| 1930 | The Strangler - Director |
| 1930 | The Strangler - Director of Photography |
| 1930 | Peas and Cues - Director |
| 1930 | Peas and Cues - Director of Photography |
| 1930 | Down Under - Director |
| 1929 | Scarlet Runner & Co - Director |
| 1929 | Scarlet Runner & Co - Director of Photography |
| 1929 | The Frog - Director |
| 1927 | Floral Co-operative Societies - Director |
| 1927 | Floral Co-operative Societies - Director of Photography |
| 1927 | The Plants of the Pantry - Director |
| 1927 | Plant Magic - Director of Photography |
| 1927 | The Plants of the Pantry - Director of Photography |
| 1927 | The Story of a Glass of Water - Director of Photography |
| 1926 | The Battle of the Plants - Director |
| 1926 | The Phantom - Director |
| 1926 | Seed Time - Director of Photography |
| 1926 | The Battle of the Plants - Director of Photography |
| 1925 | Tale of a Tendril - Director |
| 1925 | Tale of a Tendril - Director of Photography |
| 1925 | Bertie's Cave - Director |
| 1921 | Nature's Handiwork - Director |
| 1915 | Fight for the Dardanelles - Animation |
| 1915 | Fight for the Dardanelles - Director |
| 1915 | Fight for the Dardanelles - Story |
| 1913 | The Wonders of Harmonic Designing - Director of Photography |
| 1911 | Varieties of Sweet Peas - Director |
| 1911 | The Strength and Agility of Insects - Director |
| 1910 | The Birth of a Flower - Director |
| 1910 | The Birth of a Flower - Director of Photography |
| 1910 | The Acrobatic Fly - Director |
| 1909 | To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly - Director |
| 1909 | To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly - Director of Photography |
| 1908 | Story of the Silk Moth - Director |
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