Table of Contents

Prologue: Where Did These Scorpions Come from?

Chapter One: "Revealing Nature's Closest Secrets":F. Martin Duncan's Popular-Science Films at the Charles Urban Trading Company

Chapter Two: Juggling Flies and Gravid Plants: F. Percy Smith's Early Popular-Science Films

Chapter Three: "A Drama Unites Them in a Fight to the Death": The Flourishing of Popular-Science Films in France, 1909-1914

Chapter Four: A Modern Cabinet of Curiosities: George Kleine's Collection of Popular-Science Films

Chapter Five: Popular Science and Crime Melodrama: Louis Feuillade and the Serial

Conclusion: Round and Round: From the Somersaulting Monkey to "Bug Workout"

Works Cited

Index

About the Author

Oliver Gaycken is Assistant Professor English at the University of Maryland.