The first ever science documentary got stuck straight into the most important topic – cheese. Made in 1903, Cheese Mites showed audiences what a piece of stilton looked like beneath a microscope. The scientist reveals a veritable smorgasbord of mites, in his words “crawling and creeping about in all directions, looking like great uncanny crabs, bristling with long spiny hairs and legs”. The year was 1903, and early cinema goers were shocked and thrilled by the images, stilton manufacturers were appalled, and sales of cheap microscopes soared.