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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
	Like a sphere spinning in space, see the algae 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.	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	See the individual cells of a Volvox sphere.	see link above	Ken Jones, UK
	A predacious multicellular animal in the microscopical world: the rotifer!	Jaws! A Micscape Wonder Article the beautiful and awesome features of a rotifer captured on video.	Ken Jones, UK   Mol Smith, UK
	Another rotifer, Collotheca species, extending its body and opening its mouthparts.	Video gallery - a rotifer sequence	Dave Walker, UK
	See a video clip showing the birth of a live rotifer of the genus Rotaria.	Welcome to the wonderfully weird world of rotifers by Wim van Egmond	Dave Walker, UK
Water bears - one of the cutest microscopic critters!
	Clip showing the lumbering gait and piercing mouthparts.	Hunting for 'bears' in the backyard	Dave Walker, UK
	Red Echiniscus sp. water bear in incident light at low magnification.	The incredible water bear	Martin Mach, Germany
	Movement study of a water bear.	see link above	Martin Mach, Germany
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
	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
	The protozoa Vorticella as it extends on its stalk.	Photomicrography with the Intel PC camera	Howard Webb, USA
	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 organisms
	The amazing pedicellaria or 'three jawed forceps' of a sea urchin. (An mpeg movie at present, avi to follow).	Sea urchin, a stinging but amazing animal	Jean-Marie Cavanihac, France

Other movies
	See young 'scopers' at work in the Edinburgh Science Festival.	Microscopy UK at the Edinburgh Science Festival 1997	Mol Smith, Anne Bruce
small auto-looped video large 384x284 pixel window, high quality clip lasting 10secs (3MBytes)	Brownian motion of the fat globules suspended in diluted milk.	Microscopy around the home - studying Brownian motion Describes how to study the motion in e.g. milk or talcum powder with a student microscope.	Dave Walker, UK
	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