House Fly, The (2nd edition)
House Fly, The (2nd edition) is a short film from 1958 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
06:14:55:27 Different nationally themed models of houses mounted over their appropriate countries on a rotating globe. House flies fly around the globe. Camera zooms into American house.
06:15:34:26 1950s housewife pours milk into mixing bowl; CU woman holds electric mixer in bowl with one hand and shoos fly away with other.
06:15:48:00 Woman pours batter into pan; flies fly around the batter.
06:15:57:08 Decaying animal carcass swarmed by flies.
06:15:59:23 Pan over open garbage dump.
06:16:08:10 Cute little girl in party hat eats birthday cake; little girl shoos flies away from her cake.
06:16:28:27 Sick baby about three years old stands up in crib with fingers in mouth crying.
06:16:33:07 CU two milk bottles with house flies on them.
06:16:44:13 VS CU housefly; Head, Thorax and Abdominal labels are superimposed over shot of fly; VS CU fly anatomy.
06:18:53:15 Three chopped off fish heads infested with flies.
06:19:42:20 Disembodied hands remove one fly with tweezers from Petri dish and places it into another Petri dish.
06:19:53:06 MS scientist places Petri dish under microscope and looks into microscope.
06:20:08:26 CU housefly.
06:21:15:08 CU man trying to get a fly off his ice cream.
06:22:17:04 CU hand with knife sifting through rotting garbage; garbage is festering with maggots.
06:22:47:05 CU female fly lays eggs through her ovipositor; VS CU fly eggs; CU hatching maggots; CU larvae; flies breaking out of their pupil case; VS CU flies.
06:26:54:18 Fly caught in spiders web, spiders begins to wrap fly in web.
06:27:07:15 CU woman with electric mixer, stops mixing batter, grabs fly swatter and swats fly on counter top.
06:27:24:01 Disembodied hand on left edge of frame sprays insecticide into living room.
06:27:33:06 Entomologist uses Nuclear Measurements machine.
06:28:29:28 Farmer spreads insecticide poison bate over mud outside of cattle pens.
06:29:00:14 Dump truck dumping trash in open landfill.
06:29:46:08 Early sewage treatment plant.
06:30:04:19 Man fly fishing catches fish.| House Fly, The (2nd edition) | |
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| Produced by | Encyclopaedia Britannica Films |
Production company | Encyclopaedia Britannica Films |
| Distributed by | Encyclopaedia Britannica Films |
Release date | 1958 |
Running time | 16:11 |
| Language | English |
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