Time-lapse microscopy is time-lapse photography applied to microscopy.Microscope image sequences are recorded and then viewed at a greater speed togive an accelerated view of the microscopic process. Before the introduction of the video tape recorder in the 1960s, time-lapse microscopy recordingswere made on photographic film.During this period, time-lapse microscopy was referred to as microcinematography.With the increasing use of video recorders, the term time-lapse video microscopy was gradually adopted.Today, the term video is increasingly dropped, reflecting that a digital still camerais used to record the individual image frames, instead of a video recorder.