Tinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944)

Tinkering with nature: craft, domesticity and female labour in F Percy Smith’s ‘Data’ notebooks (1925–1944)

This article examines two notebooks belonging to the scientific filmmaker F Percy Smith, labelled ‘Data A’ and ‘Data B’, which are held at the National Science and Media Museum (NSMM) in Bradford. These notebooks offer valuable insights into Smith’s working process in the last two decades of his lif...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Max Long
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Science Museum, London 2023-10-01
Series:Science Museum Group Journal
Subjects:
cinema
craft
domestic
f percy smith
filmmaking
kate smith
materiality
media
natural history film
phyllis bolté
popular science
scientific film
Online Access:https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/tinkering-with-nature-craft-domesticity-and-female-labour-in-f-percy-smiths-data-notebooks-1925-1944/#abstract

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