House Fly, The (2nd edition) (1958)

Synopsis

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. 1950s housewife pours milk into mixing bowl; woman holds electric mixer in bowl with one hand and shoos fly away with other. Woman pours batter into pan; flies fly around the batter. Decaying animal carcass swarmed by flies. Pan over open garbage dump. Cute little girl in party hat eats birthday cake; little girl shoos flies away from her cake. Sick baby about three years old stands up in crib with fingers in mouth crying. two milk bottles with house flies on them. housefly; Head, Thorax and Abdominal labels are superimposed over shot of fly; fly anatomy. Three chopped off fish heads infested with flies. Disembodied hands remove one fly with tweezers from Petri dish and places it into another Petri dish. scientist places Petri dish under microscope and looks into microscope. housefly. man trying to get a fly off his ice cream. hand with knife sifting through rotting garbage; garbage is festering with maggots. female fly lays eggs through her ovipositor; fly eggs; hatching maggots; larvae; flies breaking out of their pupil case; flies. Fly caught in spiders web, spiders begins to wrap fly in web. woman with electric mixer, stops mixing batter, grabs fly swatter and swats fly on counter top. Disembodied hand on left edge of frame sprays insecticide into living room. Entomologist uses Nuclear Measurements…

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Running time

15 minutes

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Prelinger Archives

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