Scenes also serve as clips for teaching, documenting and preserving the accuracy of science through film.
They are precisely unedited and raw. There are meant to be recycled and repositioned into a different context in which they can be framed as cinematic experiences.
Unhatched developing freshwater snails in an egg case. 40x magnification. Darkfield. Sped up.
I end up with adult snails in the jars I collect pretty often and as long as there’s a decent amount of algal biomass in the jar, they can survive and feed and usually lay lots of egg clutches. These clutches are really cool to find because they’re transparent and gelatinous and you can see the snail embryos at various stages of development on the inside of each egg moving around until ready to hatch. Many freshwater snail species are hermaphrodites which means that an individual can have both sperm and eggs and reproduce without having sex with a partner. That’s why I can have a jar with just one adult snail and then in a few weeks, have dozens of snail babies moving around.