The world in black and white (1940-1949)

Showing burrows in which "people lived in the days of the childhood of human civilization."

The camera shows the rock carvings of animals and humans.

Buildings with columns and arches decorated with frescoes - "the youth of mankind."

Garden with a fountain and the Palace of the Renaissance.

The artist paints a portrait of a family in a vintage clothes at the fountain.

The child runs away, the mother runs after him.

Close-up portrait of the family is shown hanging on a wall.

In the frame - etchings and drawings of animals.

Illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci closeup.

His portrait.

Schemes of studying the structure of the human eye of Leonardo and prospects of view.

Experiments Leonardo pinhole camera for sketching from nature.

Several times alternates the image of the world (the field eared wheat, waterfall, grazing sheep, trees reflected in the water), and the human eye close-up "nature - the best painter."

The re-enactment of the court of Paris, three women and a man in Greek costume laughing.

The researcher is trying to repeat the experiment of Leonardo optical image of the object.

The invention of modern lenses.

Cabinet hardware.

Louis Daguerre and the invention of photography.

Portraits Daguerre, his work, lab.

Developing The daguerreotype, the negatives.

Image Replication.

Photographic Studio.

Men and women are prepared to photographed.

Girls consider the album, in which the cards "come to life".

We see the transformation of the image of an elderly woman with a kitten from a static to moving.

The invention of the first cluster of cameras: small in 1890 and in 1900. The big man with the device in hand.

Photo of the city.

Man photographing woman in the park.

Modern photographers with cameras in hand.

Man photographing two soldiers.

The inscription "military zone", close-up shows a male spy with a hat, wielding a mini-camera that he quickly brings to her eyes, and then continues to read the newspaper.

Footage shot through.

Most modern cameras.

Shown is a huge Italian fotokinofabrika - a "Feraniya" where the laboratories and work researchers studying physics and chemistry for the development of "the most important industry of today."

Working in a laboratory.

Creating a film.

The different materials used for different layers of film to the factory.

Viscous mass obtained from nitrovolokna.

Vesicles with substances for the production of emulsion: collodion, silver compounds, gelatin, potassium bromine, iodine, potassium, etc.

Strict control of production nitroplenki.

Pre-cleaning of clothing and footwear workers: workers with clothes carefully remove sand and dust.

Application of the emulsion on a transparent basis.

We show how the chemicals are mixed, and the mass is formed into sheets of the future film.

Different formats of the film cutting, punching the finished film workers.

Manufacture of optical lenses for cameras.

Work with different types of lenses.

The use of film and photographic equipment in the various spheres of human activity.

Showing flying military aircraft.

Ordnance Survey photographs of the earth from an airplane.

Using photographs during the war.

Map Italian Lago di Vico in the Lazio region.

Compass; Military examines card.

Military aircraft flying, dropping bombs.

It sounds cheerful music.

Close-up of shows with Italian newspaper headlines about military battles.

Use in sports photography (water gymnastics, jumps, skiing), in medicine and science.

Fluoroscopy and x-rays.

X-ray of a woman coloring her lips, brushing her hair; x-ray hands violinist.

A number of fast changing images: military rockets, dissolve the rose, the camera lens, micro-organisms under the microscope, the starry sky, bacteria and viruses, the cell structure of the cosmos.

Playing Orchestra, which cuts through the image of the sound track.

Photographing military operations (running soldiers). "So tomorrow's recorded history of power."

The film ends with scenes spinning globe.