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SUMMARY:Percy Smith: the self-creation of an amateur scientist and filmmak
 er - Tim Boon (Science Museum)
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CONTACT:Sophie Waring
DESCRIPTION:A popular natural history film series\, _Secrets of Nature_\, 
 flourished in the interwar period. One cameraman\, Percy Smith\, was very 
 closely associated with the series\, and was a minor celebrity in his day.
  This presentation looks at Smith's public image as amateur scientist and 
 technologist\, and seeks to uncover how this was constructed\, asking ques
 tions about the relationship of archival sources to biography\, and how an
  example such as this can help us to probe the culture of science in the p
 ast.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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