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OPEN SPACE trailer FLEFF 2010

This is a 2 minute trailer for the Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, FLEFF. Much of the video design is based on artwork used for the commissioned poster for the Festival.
The original music was composed and mixed by Robbie Aceto.

Breast Cancer and the Estrogen Connection: Plastics

Certain types of plastics can leach estrogen mimicking chemicals into beverage bottles and food containers. Scientists are concerned that even at low levels, these environmental estrogens may work together with the body’s own estrogen to increase the risk of breast cancer.

The Hydrologic Cycle: Swedish language version

We created this short science lesson using public domain animation to succinctly explain the hydrologic cycle and introduce some hydrologic vocabulary.
Original soundtrack is by Lennart Reinander.

Champion Results

Cornell University veterinarians and researchers study the horse with an eye to serving the horse racing community. We follow their investigations into equine performance, respiratory fitness, orthopedic surgery, and fertility.

Creations From Fire

Frederick Carder, founder of world famous Steuben Glass, created gorgeous, colorful glass. Tommy Buechner demonstrates the varied techniques Carder used including casing, trailing, intarsia and aurene. This video plays continuously in the Rockwell Museum in Corning, NY, in the midst of their extensive collection of Carder Glass.

GET FRESH! Peaches

Each summer, families receiving benefits under the Women, Infants, and Children’s Program (WIC), are given coupons to buy fresh fruits and vegetables, redeemable only at Farmer’s Markets. This video series is played at WIC clinics to show people from the WIC program using their coupons at their local Farmer’s Market, and then preparing

Refresquense: Melocotones

This show is from a video series: 16 shows, 5-6 minutes each
8 shows are in English, 8 are in Spanish
Each summer, families receiving benefits under the Women, Infants, and Children’s Program (WIC), are given coupons to buy fresh fruits and ..

Ask an Engineer

This show, narrated by and featuring 12 year old Sophie Lang, includes 5 stories featuring a variety of engineers. This seven minute, widescreen program with surround sound was designed to play continuously in a special theater as part of a traveling science museum exhibit about engineering called “Tech City”

She’s The Engineer

Many high school girls are adept at math and science, yet few choose engineering as a field of study. Focus group research for this program suggested that these girls, motivated by a combination of altruism and greed, could be shown that engineering is a viable choice.

Where Does Water Go When it Rains?

Basic concepts such as a water budget, stores and fluxes of water, and the flowpaths and residence time of water are explained, using old cartoons, stock imagery, and original material.