Arthur C. Pillsbury built the first lapse-time camera to show the motion of plants in 1912-1913 and then filed the first lapse-time movie and showed it to the Superintendent and others in charge of Yosemite in 1912 to raise consciousness and ensure the preservation of the wild flowers then becoming extinct. In 1927 Pillsbury invented the first microscopic motion picture camera, again to enlarge the scope of human vision. His later inventions continued this work. Pillsbury's work is overlooked because he focused on creating visuals instead of text. With the growing coonsciousness of the greater impact of visuals this is now changing.