--- title: These Are Some of the Best Microscopic Videos of the Year description: A mouse whisker follicle, larva, soap film, and more canonical: https://time.com/4143081/see-the-winners-of-the-small-world-in-motion-competition/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-09T20:02:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T22:20:11.000Z article:section: Science og:title: Watch Some of the Best Microscopic Video Footage of the Year og:description: A mouse whisker follicle, larva, soap film, and more og:url: https://time.com/4143081/see-the-winners-of-the-small-world-in-motion-competition/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d86252b4c44c069/698874b2a988ca37ff6b5a8f/small-world-in-motion.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2215 og:image:height: 1246 og:image:alt: small-world-in-motion og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Some of the Best Microscopic Video Footage of the Year twitter:description: A mouse whisker follicle, larva, soap film, and more twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d86252b4c44c069/698874b2a988ca37ff6b5a8f/small-world-in-motion.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Some of the Best Microscopic Video Footage of the Year > Sponsored content. 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Future Proof is free at time.com/newsletters. by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:20 PM UTCPublished: Dec 9, 2015 8:02 PM UTC  Youtube by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Updated: Dec 13, 2023 10:20 PM UTCPublished: Dec 9, 2015 8:02 PM UTC Some of the world’s most stunning beauties can’t be seen with the naked eye. Every year, scientists and microscope devotees submit their images and movies of life science objects shot under a microscope to the Nikon International Small World Competition. The video category of the competition, titled [Small World in Motion](http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/swim/info), “encompasses any movie or digital time-lapse photography taken through the microscope.” Here are this year’s amazing, pint-sized honorees, including a mouse whisker follicle, larva, soap film, and more in the video above. “Trachelius ciliate feeding on a Campanella ciliate” won first place, “Gut contents of a termite” took second, and “parasitoid larva breaking out of its host” came in third. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4143081/see-the-winners-of-the-small-world-in-motion-competition/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4143081/see-the-winners-of-the-small-world-in-motion-competition/"},"headline":"Watch Some of the Best Microscopic Video Footage of the Year","datePublished":"2015-12-09T20:02:49.000Z","dateModified":"2023-12-13T22:20:11.000Z","description":"A mouse whisker follicle, larva, soap film, and more","url":"https://time.com/4143081/see-the-winners-of-the-small-world-in-motion-competition/","keywords":["multimedia","Science topic","Photo","time video"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d86252b4c44c069/698874b2a988ca37ff6b5a8f/small-world-in-motion.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt5d86252b4c44c069/698874b2a988ca37ff6b5a8f/small-world-in-motion.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"small-world-in-motion","caption":"","creditText":"Youtube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/multimedia/","name":"multimedia"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4143081/see-the-winners-of-the-small-world-in-motion-competition/","name":"Watch Some of the Best Microscopic Video Footage of the Year"}}]}] ```