To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly

To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly
To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly
	Screenshot from the film
Directed by	F. Percy Smith
Production; company	Kineto
Distributed by	Charles Urban Trading Company
Release date	1909;
Running time	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]

References

^ Hammerton, Jenny. "To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
^ Davidson, Alex (8 April 2010). "To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909)". BFIfilms YouTube channel. Retrieved 24 April 2011.

External links

To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly at IMDb

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[BFIso01-1] Hammerton, Jenny. "To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909)". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 24 April 2011.

[BFIyt01-2] Davidson, Alex (8 April 2010). "To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909)". BFIfilms YouTube channel. Retrieved 24 April 2011.

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