Summary

MITES AND MONSTERS

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: MITES AND MONSTERS
File Number: AFP-136BB 16mm; VTM-136BB Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Documentary
Year: 01/01/1950
Description: B W 1950 Documentary film about animal life, its variety and adaptations Lots of brief shots on a variety of subjects 00:17:09:00 B W 1950 Montage of children with zoo animals: elephant with four people on its back three children riding a camel children with llama little girl with bear cub little girl pets mongoose little girl holds guinea pig little girl pets tiny big-eyed animal, a galago (or bushbaby) 00:18:45:00 B W 1950 ecu Microscopic single-celled animal, a paramecium 00:18:55:00 B W 1950 cu, ms Little boy and girl playing with blocks, very generic 00:19:47:00 B W 1950 ecu, cu Insect montage: centipede ant's face, ecu, good water-surface insects butterfly in puddle, struggling butterfly on leaf ecu human mouth drinking from cup grasshopper three big moths clinging to man's fingers ecu sugar and milk stirred into cup of tea (or coffee), very good, generic luna moth tarantula crawling slowly 00:22:18:00 B W 1950 mcu Two butterflies land on flowers 00:22:32:00 B W 1950 cu Hand spreads deck of cards out across table this action is compared visually to a vulture in zoo flapping its wings also, single white dove or pigeon strutting around 00:23:35:00 B W 1950 ms Ostrich, standing in place, flapping wings not so good 00:24:04:00 B W 1950 Underwater montage: carp in pond lobsters and horseshoe crab sea turtles (in aquarium) 00:25:05:00 B W 1950 ws VS from the British natural history museum: huge model whale shark whale skeletons prehistoric animal reconstruction models (famous turn-of-the-century dinosaurs from the grounds of the Crystal Palace) dinosaur skeletons - Diplodocus 00:26:54:00 B W 1950 Montage of animals intercut with humans: group of prairie dogs gets frightened, runs out of frame ecu man's foot steps on grass (bug's eye view) workers use elephant to push log dog, sitting, gets up to jump for treat in man's hand chimpanzee drinks from cup man at drafting table draws with a French curve bison (buffalo) in meadow deer in field man eating a sandwich, PAN to his stomach animals in zoo - polar bear, fox, hippopotamus, elephant 00:29:52:00 B W 1950 mcu Giraffe, cu legs as it walks cu legs of rhinoceros (?) 00:30:23:00 B W 1950 ecu Flea, hideous CU 00:31:30:00 B W 1950 cu Peculiar shot: medicine bottle, hand tips out one pill, an aspirin ZI to ECU aspirin pill 00:31:36:00 B W 1950 ews Crowd shot, huge mass of people, pan 00:31:49:00 B W 1950 ms Young man gazes up into sky with stars good shot, reads Wonder, but brief DISSOLVE to night sky
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