Preparation of the specimen by glycerol treatment and centrifugation; freezing the specimen; preparing the freeze-etching plant; course of fracturing, etching and shadowing the replica with platinum-iridium alloy and carbon and cone shadowing with carbon; reallife film and animation sequences; cleaning the replicas and mounting on carrier grids. Result: freeze-etched replica of a longitudinally fractured cell of the green alga Ankistrodesmus braunii.