To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly

To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909)

Charming animated illustration of one of nature's wonders from Britain's most inventive pioneer of wildlife filmmaking.

Date of release
1909-05-16
TMDB
2.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1m
Genres
Animation, Documentary
Director
F. Percy Smith

Interesting facts

To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly is a 1909 British animated short silent 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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