Word: paramecium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Disney presentation, of course, is far more popular than scientific, with no more method than the afternoon of a faun. One instant the camera is following the progress of a paramecium as it scoots through the heavy microscopic traffic. A few frames later the moviegoer may find himself staring at a luminous line of what seem to be huge purple carboys filled with a red-gold fluid and hanging in a rack, but prove to be vastly bloated ants-the living storage vats of the honey-cask tribe. There is some marvelous stop-motion cinematography. Roots grow like wild white...