| SECRETS OF NATURE - WHERE FLIES GO IN THE WINTER-TIME Tinted print of an educational film about the life of flies. | ||
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| Catalog #: | 488067 | |
| Clip Number: | 488067-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | DOCUMENTARIES | |
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| Year Shot: | 1922 (Estimated Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATE: Insect, Flies SCIENCE: Biology | |
| Description: | MISSING 10/10/2005 SECRETS OF NATURE - WHERE FLIES GO IN THE WINTER-TIME Tinted print of an educational film about the life of flies. Inter-titles about how flies have been a plague unto mankind since time began... "Only one stage of the fly's existence is passed in the light of day. It has remained for the cinematography to reveal the phases passed in secrecy and darkness." Shot of a fly in extreme C/U. Fly lays its eggs on a refuse heap. Highly magnified eggs. Refuse heap. Maggots hatch out. There is a hook at the end of the maggot which they use to pull themselves around and to tear at food. The maggots burrow into the manure. The maggot turns into a chrysalid or chrysalis. The chrysalid turns darker and harder. C/U of three chrysalides. Flies crawl out of the chrysalides. C/U of fly emerging and flying away. Flies work their way upwards through soil. C/U of fly moving through powder. Fly bursts through surface and then rests for a while. The head shrinks and the wings begin to develop. A fully grown fly. Very short shot of fly feeding on a piece of food. | |
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