Exhibition:Films of Fact

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Films of Fact
Location	The Bridge (Ground Floor Mezzanine)
Opening dates	30 May 2008 - 09 September 2009

Films of Fact is an exhibition about scientific films and television programmes. It deals with when they started and the four major genres that developed up to 1965. In the Victorian era, there were two great media of science engagement: the printed book and the public museum. Science and invention gave birth in 1995 to cinema, a new medium that was soon challenging these older media. Today there are nature and technology films, those on science’s social mission, and those that simply convey the content and excitement of science. Each of these types of science programming was invented at a specific point in the last 110 years. And, if you go back and look, you can see how each was the product of particular historical circumstances.