Directed by F. Percy Smith Distributed by Urban Trading Company Running time 58 secs Initial release 1909 | Production
company Kineto Release date 1909 (1909) Country United Kingdom Director F. Percy Smith | |
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Similar The Acrobatic Fly, Secrets of Nature, The Strength and Agilit | ||
To demonstrate how spiders fly 1909
To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly is a 1909 British short silent animated documentary film, directed by F. Percy Smith, featuring a close-up of an animated model spider throwing its silken thread to take to the air. The film features, "the first of several animated creatures to appear in Smith's films," and according to Jenny Hammerton of BFI Screenonline was made in the belief, "that he could cure people of their fear of spiders by showing them blown up images of their eight legged foes on the cinema screen."
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