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Discovery terms: 2000s animation, archival footage, 2d digital animation, rostrum camera, science, chemistry, technology, representation, poetry film, filmmaker, artist filmmaker

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**Tulips at Dawn** a film by Rosie Pedlow

[Rosie Pedlow](http://www.folkprojects.net)

2002, 3 min 24 sec

![Tulips at Dawn, still: the sign](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn01.jpg)

the sign

### animate! synopsis

Diagrams of chemistry apparatus and educational film footage react and combine in this quirky interpretation of the poem *Modes of Representation* by Nobel Laureate chemist Roald Hoffmann.

The film illustrates how technology changes the way we represent the world, with results that prove ironic and inconclusive.

### key credits

**director**
Rosie Pedlow

**based upon**
Tulips at Dawn by Roald Hoffman

**narrator**
Peter Blegvad

**editor**
Joe King

**sound designer**
Joe King

### Rosie Pedlow

#### biography

Rosie studied chemistry at school and graduated in animation from University of Wales College, Newport in 1998. **Tulips at Dawn** is her first commissioned film.

She has also recently completed an experimental work **Entrance** in collaboration with the composer Richard Barrett, commissioned by S4C Television, Sgrîn and the Arts Council of Wales.

She shares a studio and has a close working relationship with the artist/film-maker Joe King.

December 2002

### a film by Rosie Pedlow

### direction

**director**
Rosie Pedlow

### based upon

**actual credit**
based upon

**title of original material**
Tulips at Dawn

**author**
Roald Hoffman

**type of adapted source material**
poem

### voice-over

**narrator**
Peter Blegvad

### image personnel

**editor**
Joe King

### incorporated image material

archive footage © National Educational Video Library

### sound personnel

**sound designer**
Joe King

© Rosie Pedlow 2002

[![Tulips at Dawn, still: the sign](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn01.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/tulipsatdawn01.jpg)

the sign

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[![Tulips at Dawn, still: the sign1](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn02.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/tulipsatdawn02.jpg)

the sign1

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[![Tulips at Dawn, still: you can see inside](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn03.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/tulipsatdawn03.jpg)

you can see inside

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[![Tulips at Dawn, still: one had](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn04.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/tulipsatdawn04.jpg)

one had

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[![Tulips at Dawn, still: (a) boat](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn05.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/tulipsatdawn05.jpg)

(a) boat

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[![Tulips at Dawn, still: cross section](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn06.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/tulipsatdawn06.jpg)

cross section

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[![Tulips at Dawn, still: weak copy](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn07.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/tulipsatdawn07.jpg)

weak copy

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[![Tulips at Dawn, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn08.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/tulipsatdawn08.jpg)

tap

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[![Tulips at Dawn, still](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn09.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/tulipsatdawn09.jpg)

cooker

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[![Tulips at Dawn, still: water and glass](https://animate.org.uk/stillslarge/tulipsatdawn10.jpg)](https://animate.org.uk/stillsfull/tulipsatdawn10.jpg)

water and glass

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### technical

#### process summary

The film combines and manipulates archive footage, rostrum camerawork and 2D computer animation.

Diagrams of chemistry apparatus and educational film footage react and combine in this quirky interpretation of a poem by Nobel Laureate Chemist Roald Hoffmann.

The film is an experiment to illustrate how technology changes the way we represent the world, with results that prove ironic and inconclusive.

### master copy format

**format**
DigiBeta

**colour or black & white**
colour

### video distribution format

**video format**
DigiBeta

**screen aspect ratio**
16:9

**video standard**
PAL

**sound type**
stereo

### distributor

LUX
[info@lux.org.uk](mailto:info@lux.org.uk)
+44 (0)20 7503 3980
[www.lux.org.uk](http://www.lux.org.uk/)

**Tulips at Dawn** film, stills and other materials © Rosie Pedlow 2002