This 20-minute screenplay was adapted from The Diamond Lens, a short story by Fitz James O'Brien, an unjustly neglected 19th century writer of tales of the uncanny, considered by some to be one of the forerunners of modern science fiction.
It's the tragic story of a pioneering microscopist who falls hopelessly in love with a miniscule woman.
Nothing could break down the barriers which Nature had erected between us.
In Love... With an Animalcule!
A short film. Lost in the museum, Jenny mistakes another woman for her mother, and is lead out of her safe, orderly world to somewhere much more frightening.
The script for a short public information film on how you are misinterpreting the world by failing to pay attention to the right details.
NARRATOR (V.O.)
You just make life difficult for yourself.
A mild-looking young man, JIM, 36, rolls up his shirt sleeves and starts wiping the dust from shelves.
NARRATOR (V.O.)
Every time the dust starts to build up, you get rid of it all!
Jim shakes the duster out of the open window.
NARRATOR (V.O.)
And so you have to start again from scratch. This is madness.