"As a paradigmatic case of the amateur avant-gardist working in different genres, one can look at Dr. James Sibley Watson. Watson was a medical doctor by profession. In 1928 he collaborated with Melville Webber on The Fall of the House of Usher which was shot in his garage with a homemade optical printer. After attempting to start a local newsreel, Watson produced two industrial films that made heavy use of avant-garde techniques, The Eyes of Science (1931, for Bausch ! Lomb) and Highlights and Shadows (1935, for Eastman Kodak) (which is an exquisite depiction of photographic processes. ) -Jan-Christoph Horak A selection of X-ray motion studies of animal and human physiology produced between 1946 and 1960 by a team headed by Watson will also be presented.