Elastic time

Richard H. Pough, chairman of the Department of Conservation and General Ecology at the AMNH, demonstrates new photographic techniques. Man has increased his knowledge through time-lapse photographic and stroboscopic (high-speed) techniques. A year in the life of a field of grain, from seed to maturity, is filmed using time-lapse photography. Charles M. Bogert, museum herpetologist, produced slow-motion films of a rattlesnake's strike. Other footage includes a drone fly, a frog leaping, the tide coming in on the California coast, a corn flower blossoming, and the life of a plant through the seasons. Films were provided by the Eastman Kodak Company, Harold Edgerton, Sperry Gyroscope, and Wolland Optical Company.