Proteus (2004 film)

Proteus
Proteus
Directed by	David Lebrun
Written by	David Lebrun
Produced by	David Lebrun
Starring	Corey Burton, Richard Dysart, Phil Proctor, James Warwick
Narrated by	Marian Seldes
Music by	Yuval Ron
Release date	2004;
Running time	60 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English

Proteus is an animated documentary film written and directed by David Lebrun in 2004.^[1] It depicts a 19th-century understanding of the sea by interweaving the life and work of German biologist and researcher Ernst Haeckel with excerpts from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and the story of the oceanographic Challenger expedition of the 1870s.^[2]

One-celled microorganisms known as radiolarians feature prominently in Haeckel's fascination with the observable natural world and the underlying guiding principles assumed to be implicit in its very existence.

References

^ Jennifer Frazer, "Proteus: How Radiolarians Saved Ernst Haeckel". Scientific American, January 31, 2012.
^ Rozwadowski, Helen M. (2006). "David Lebrun. Proteus: A Nineteenth-Century Vision. Brooklyn, N.Y.: First Run/Icarus Films, 2004". Isis. 97 (3): 576–577. doi:10.1086/509988.

External links

Proteus at IMDb

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[1] Jennifer Frazer, "Proteus: How Radiolarians Saved Ernst Haeckel". Scientific American, January 31, 2012.

[2] Rozwadowski, Helen M. (2006). "David Lebrun. Proteus: A Nineteenth-Century Vision. Brooklyn, N.Y.: First Run/Icarus Films, 2004". Isis. 97 (3): 576–577. doi:10.1086/509988.

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