Skilled Insect Artisans (S)
- Original title
- Skilled Insect Artisans
- Year
- 1922
- Running time
- 9 min.
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Director
- Cast
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Documentary
- Producer
- Genre
- Documentary | Short Film. Silent Film. Insects. Nature
- Synopsis
- A 1922 British 9-minute short black-and-white silent documentary film, directed by Edgar Chance, featuring the life cycles of the Ailanthus silkmoth and the Red Admiral butterfly, which according to Adam Dodd of BFI Screenonline was made at the time rayon was emerging as a man-made alternative to natural silk and anthropomorphised the insects in terms of their behavioural resemblance to human activities.
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