To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly Explained

To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly
Director:F. Percy Smith
Studio:Kineto
Distributor:Charles Urban Trading Company
Runtime:58 secs
Country:United Kingdom
Language:Silent

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."[1] [2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909) . Jenny . Hammerton . BFI Screenonline . 2011-04-24 .
  2. Web site: To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909) . Alex . Davidson . BFIfilms YouTube channel . 8 April 2010. 2011-04-24 .