Movies, AVIs at Microscopy UK

Microscopy-UK®
Animated gifs

Updated May 2001.

These gifs are lower quality versions of the avi and mpeg galleries.

If you can view avi's, many but not all of these gifs are available as avi's; please check the 'AVI Movies' index left below.

Home
More Movies
Movie Player
UK Movies
AVI Movies
AVI Drivers
Mpegs

SCROLL DOWN to see our animated gif movies.

If you are looking for an animation/video clip of either macro or microscopic life not included here, please let us know, we may be able to help.

If you would like to try video microscopy, there are various affordable approaches for the hobbyist. Type 'video' in the Micscape Article search engine.

All material © Microscopy-UK and our contributors.
See HELP for 'permissions'.

Note: Depending on the type of link below, a new window may be opened. If so, close it down after viewing, to return to this index.

Topic
Click button to view

Animation subject

Related or source article

Animation creator

Insects and mites
	See an amazing close-up of a fly eating. (You don't wish to know what!	The blow fly in 3D by Wim van Egmond	Mol Smith, UK
	Super-resistant hair lice are not too good at walking on hard surfaces.	Lice resources on Microscopy-UK	Mol Smith, UK
	Head lice can stray to other regions of the body.	Lice wars! Note to parents/teachers: this illustrated article discusses an important topic from an adult perspective.	Mol Smith, UK
	Body lice also known as clothes lice.	Lice resources on Microscopy-UK	Mol Smith, UK
	Mature body louse filled with blood.	see link above	Mol Smith, UK
	View of head louse close-up from beneath.	see link above	Mol Smith, UK
	Close-up of dustmite.	Dustmites - a tale of love and passion between the sheets	Mol Smith, UK
	Dustmites (smaller image).	see link above	Mol Smith, UK
	Adult cicada hatching (time-lapse sequence)	Time-lapse gallery	Ed Kinsman, USA

Aquatic life

Pond life
	See a beautiful, almost graceful freshwater bryozoa called Plumatella.	Pond fairies. The freshwater bryozoa, Plumatella repens. Video microscopy. My own system.	Ken Jones, UK
	Now look at the Plumatella ciliated tentacles close-up!	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	See another movie of Plumatella.	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	See another movie of Plumatella.	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	Like a sphere spinning in space, see Volvox spin on our pages!	Volvox - the jewel of the pond.	Ken Jones, UK
	See a rotifer attacking a Volvox colony.	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	See a rotifer attacking a Volvox colony (bigger view).	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	Another rotifer, Collotheca species, extending its body and opening its mouthparts.	Video gallery - a rotifer sequence	Dave Walker, UK
Water bears - one of the cutest microscopic critters! (Check AVI Movies for more clips).
	Clip showing the lumbering gait and piercing mouthparts.	Hunting for 'bears' in the backyard	Dave Walker, UK
Single-celled organisms in action
	Radiolaria - focussing through one of these beautiful silica-shelled marine organisms.	Radiolarian shells- three small projects in digital imaging for microscopists	Martin Mach, Germany
	Radiolaria - a 360º 'fly-by' to view the shell's intricate detail.	see link above	Martin Mach, Germany
	A truly amazing creature: Lacrymaria olor - 'Tear of a Swan'!	'Tear of a swan'. Lacrymaria olor the 'giraffe' of the protozoan world! A microscopic 'Loch Ness monster', Lacrymaria olor	Richard Howey, US
	Another movie clip of the amazing creature: Lacrymaria olor.	see links above	Richard Howey, US
	Beating cilia of a protozoa by phase contrast lighting to highlight the detail.	Video gallery - beating cilia of a protozoa	Edward Cowen, UK
	Protozoa showing beating cilia and contractile vacuole by phase contrast.	Video gallery - protozoa portraits	Edward Cowen, UK
	Shows the extension of a pseuodopod in an amoeboid type protozoa.	see link above	Edward Cowen, UK
	Two bacteria (spirochaetes) in an intriguing 'dance'.	Dance of the spirochaetes	Edward Cowen, UK
	A teeming mass of spirochaete bacteria.	see link above	Edward Cowen, UK
Marine
	Sea squirt (ascidians, tunicates) 1) Beating heart and 2) focussing down siphon	Tunicates extraordinaire	Jean-Marie Cavanihac, France
	Marine euglena Fascinating metabolic movements.	CMOS camera videos	Jean-Marie Cavanihac, France
	Spirulines (Filamentous cyanobacteria) Nature invented the screw before man!	CMOS camera videos	Jean-Marie Cavanihac, France
	NEW Bryozoan Bugula - tentacles, cilia and avicularia (amazing 'bird's beak' type feature in action!)	Flowers of the sea: Bryozoans and cnidaria	Jean-Marie Cavanihac, France
	NEW Cnidarian Obelia - detail and medusa stage	Flowers of the sea: Bryozoans and cnidaria	Jean-Marie Cavanihac, France

Other subjects (crystals, Brownian motion, cytoplasmic streaming etc.)
	Chemical kaleidoscope. Musk ketone crystals; colour sequence when viewed between rotating Polaroid filters.	'Polar exploration'	Dave Walker, UK
	Kaleidoscopic patterns. Cholesterol acetate crystals, wonderful patterns when viewed between rotating Polaroid filters.	see link above	Dave Walker, UK
	Brownian motion in the fat globules in very dilute milk.	Microscopy around the home: studying Brownian motion	Dave Walker, UK
	Cyclosis (cytoplasmic streaming) in cells of Canadian pondweed.	Video gallery: Cyclosis in Canadian pondweed	Dave Walker, UK

Contact Dave Walker if any problems accessing or viewing animations.