And flapping wing obedient ... (1988)

Animation insert - Ancient Rus, a man with wings is flying down, people are watching the flight around.

Seagulls are flying.

B/w footage - a man on the field rides a bicycle with wings.

A homemade device with wings.

The large title of the book is "Macholet: from idea to Machine".

The designers are in the frame.

There is a homemade flying machine in the clearing.

An article in the newspaper about the macholet.

There is a homemade flying machine in the clearing.

An article in the newspaper about the macholet.

A man in the cockpit of an aircraft.

Self-taught designers are in a clearing, testing flywheels.

An article about a macholet.

Shots with different types of flywheels.

Large - a butterfly on a flower.

Lake, shores, trees.

Grass, flowers, butterflies, bees, dragonflies fly.

Pictures with flora and fauna of prehistoric times.

The fossilized remains of a prehistoric insect, the imprint of a wing is clearly visible on the stone.

Collection of different butterflies.

The flapping wings of a butterfly, a cricket in slow motion.

The insect wing is shown in detail.

Tweezers touch the wing.

Slow motion pictures of the flight of different insects.

Institute of Evolutionary Morphology and Ecology of Animals in Moscow.

An employee of the Institute observes a magnified and scanned image on the screen with a microscope.

Close-up - hand on the dashboard.

A large-magnified image of a wing under a microscope.

Large - the hand turns the handle of the equipment.

A large-magnified image of a wing under a microscope.

Large - the hand turns the handle of the equipment.

Large - maple seed in the form of a wing.

Fish scales under a microscope.

Enlarged image of an insect wing.

An employee of the institute, works with equipment, looks at the monitor.

An employee removes the flight of insects with special equipment.

Different slow-motion shots of insect flight.

Floating model with wings in the water.

Slow motion shooting of an insect's flight.

The movement of the model in the water.

Slow motion pictures of insect flight.

Paddle in the water.

Academic rowing, athletes swim in a boat.

Large - the paddle is rowing in the water.

Lake, rowboats are sailing.

A butterfly in slow motion.

Leningrad University, Department of Entomology - an employee studies the flight of a butterfly.

The flight is examined in a laser beam.

The image of a butterfly, you can see how the wings form a vortex trail.

The face of an employee of the Institute.

The image of a butterfly, you can see how the wings form a vortex trail.

An employee of the Institute, Doctor of Biological Sciences A. K. Brodsky, next to a poster depicting the movement of insect wings, eddy currents of air, tells how research is carried out, observations of insects using a laser beam.

Brodsky demonstrates vortex flows on a poster.

Slow motion in a laser beam - traces of the movement of butterfly wings are visible.

Diagram of the vortex trace from the movement of butterfly wings.

Slow motion in a laser beam - traces of the movement of butterfly wings are visible.

Different slow-motion shots of the flight of butterflies.

Says Candidate of Biological Sciences Bocharova-Messner O. M. Large - butterfly on a flower.

Field, grass, flowers, insects.

A hang glider takes off from the mountain.

Hang glider in the sky.

Bird's-eye view of the earth - river, forest, etc.

The hang glider hovers over the plain.

Panorama of the river, forest, rocks.