| ANT COLONY Animal Behaviourist Derek Wragge Morley examines ants in mazes. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7144 |
| Catalog #: | 46109 | |
| Clip Number: | 46109-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | NP 293 | |
| Timecode: | 01:08:49 - 01:10:29 | |
| Location: | Hampstead, London. | |
| Year Shot: | 1950 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATE: Insect, Ant LOCATIONS/EUROPE: UK, England, London OCCUPATIONS: Scientists SCIENCE: Biology | |
| Description: | ANT COLONY Animal Behaviourist Derek Wragge Morley examines ants in mazes. Hampstead, London. C/Us of ants crawling about - could be seen through a microscope? Seems to be just their silhouettes, as if they are seen through tissue paper lit from behind. We then see Animal Behaviourist Derek Wragge Morley doing research work into ants. CU Morley looking at ant in test tube. He puts a clump of earth and ants into a maze and covers it with a piece of glass. Then he observes how the ants find their way out. CU putting ants in different sections of maze. MCU Morley with maze. CU Morley. BCU Two ants. CU Morley. BCU Big ant with small behind running round maze. CU Morley putting ant in maze CU Morley with maze. CU Morley. CU Ant trying to get out of maze. MS Morley arranging glass on maze. CU Ant trying to find a way round maze. More C/Us of ants; one of them is a queen ant. C/U of an ant running about a maze and trying to find his way out. We are told that intelligent ants have a nervous breakdown when faced with an unforeseen obstacle so "that must explain what happens when you sit on one", says commentator. | |
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