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Skilled Insect Artisans (S)

Original title: Skilled Insect Artisans
Year: 1922
Running time: 9 min.
Country: United Kingdom
Director: Edgar Chance
Cast: Documentary
Producer: British Instructional Films (BIF)
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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Skilled Insect Artisans (S)

1922

Edgar Chance