Videos

Doc Edgerton created several hundred short films over the course of his career to document and share his research with strobe lights, high-speed and time-lapse photography, and oceanographic explorations with sonar instruments and underwater cameras. This selection of films showcases the best of Edgerton’s work and the range of applications he found for the instruments he developed. The films also reveal his sense of humor as well as his insatiable scientific curiosity. Enjoy!

Docedgertonvideo-CALYPSOCrewAndDocEdgerton726

Harold 'Doc' Edgerton, Jacques-Yves Cousteau and the CALYPSO crew, 1953

1953

HEE-FV-169 (low res)

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Harold 'Doc' Edgerton on board CALYPSO

1954 or 1955

HEE-FV-222 (low res)

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Time Lapse: Sunrise at Stonehenge

1962 (?)

Film 200A (low res)

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Exploring Aerodynamics in Nature

n.d.

HEE-FV-184 (low res)

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Formation of Round and Hollow Unicellular Particles by Spray Processing

1954

HEE-FV-182 (low res)

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Time Lapse: Starfish Crawling

c. 1973

HEE-FV-007 (low res)

Docedgertonvideo-TimeLapseOfClouds480-517

Time Lapse: Clouds

1960s (?)

HEE-FV-171 (low res)

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Bullets Going Through Objects - Still Images

1965

HEE-FV-280 (low res)

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Time Lapse: Boats on the Charles

1970s

HEE-FV-214 (low res)

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Motion Pictures of Surface Tension Measurements

1936

HEE-FV-165

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Time Lapse: Cactus Flower

1970s

HEE-FV-214 (low res)

Docedgertonvideo-ClockAndPlantTimeLapse374

Time Lapse: Clock and Plant

1970s

HEE-FV-214 (low res)

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Time Lapse: Sand Dollars

1970s

HEE-FV-214 (low res)

Docedgertonvideo-SunriseOnBoston1571-338

Time Lapse: Sunrise on Boston Skyline (1)

n.d.

HEE-FV-214 (low res)

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Time Lapse: Sunrise on Boston Skyline (2)

n.d.

HEE-FV-214 (low res)

Docedgertonvideo-SunSettingThroughWindow382-78

MIThenge? TIme Lapse: Sun Setting Through Window of Lobby 7

1970s

HEE-FV-214 (low res)

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Time Lapse: Starfish Crawling

1970s

HEE-FV-214 (low res)

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Time-Lapse: Worms Crawling on the Ocean Floor

1970s

HEE-FV-214 (low res)

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Seeing the Unseen

1936

HEE-FV-038

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MIT Presents High Speed Motion Pictures Taken with Stroboscopic Lights

1930s

HEE-FV-018

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Mediterranean Sonar Research with Cousteau

1962

HEE-FV-224

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Underwater Photography - MIT Science Reporter TV

1964

HEE-FV-019

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How Fast Is Fast?

1994

HEE-MITVIDEO-141

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Armada Shipwreck Search at Tobermory Bay (Mull, Scotland, U.K.)

1964

HEE-FV-175

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Rift Valley Expedition on R/V AKADEMIK KURCHATOV

1969

HEE-FV-274

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Synchronous Motor Motional Transients

1930s

HEE-FV-286

NGS Lect_FV-011

High Speed Photography: National Geographic Society Lecture (C)

1965

HEE-FV-011

StrobeDemo_FV-010

Edgerton Demonstrates Stroboscopic and High-Speed Photography

1966, 1970s

HEE-FV-010

UW_TIme_Lapse-FV-007

Underwater Elapsed Time Motion Picture

1973 & earlier

HEE-FV-007

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Spray Mechanism of African Bombardier Beetles

1981 ±

HEE-FV-170

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Jacques-Yves Cousteau Tests Doc Edgerton's Camera

1952

HEE-FV-169 [section 1]

PhotoInstr_FV-120

Photographic Instrumentation Under the Sea

1959

HEE-FV-120

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High-Speed Motion Pictures With Stroboscopic Light

1936 ±

HEE-FV-016

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Edgerton Short Subjects and Testing Sonar Equipment

1963

HEE-FV-181

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USS MONITOR Shipwreck Project

1977

HEE-FV-035

InvisWorld_FV-068

Takes for "The Invisible World"

1968 ±

HEE-FV-068

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Golf Players on the Green

1960s?

HEE-FV-084

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Flash Photography Set-Up and Demonstrations: Film Takes

1957

HEE-FV-215

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Copepods, Stentors, Milk Drops, Eric Newman

1958

HEE-FV-050

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Submersibles and Bathyscaphes in the Mediterranean Sea

1954

HEE-FV-052

MicrocircBlood_FV-161

Photography of Microcirculation of the Blood

1965

HEE-FV-161

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A.E.C. Operation Redwing. EG&G Participation in Off-Continent Nuclear Tests

1956

HEE-FV-162

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Photography of Nuclear Detonations

1950s

HEE-FV-187

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4000 Pound "Blockbusters" in Action

1942

HEE-FV-166 (low res)

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Underwater Explosion Phenomena

1943

HEE-FV-186 (low res)

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Slow Motion Sound

1960s

HEE-FV-185 (low res)

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Time Lapse: Sun Traveling Up the Hancock Tower

n.d.

HEE-FV-214 (low res)