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.
Plastic crystal
The brief scene captures the mechanical bending of an organic crystal, which is an unusual phenomenon, given that traditionally crystals (like sugar ones or gemstones) are considered rigid and brittle. With this experiment, we were able to characterize the degree of flexibility of the sample.