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Secrets of Nature: Skilled Insect Artisans
Secrets of Nature: Skilled Insect Artisans

SECRETS OF NATURE: SKILLED INSECT ARTISANS

Directed by Edgar Chance
United Kingdom, 1922
Documentary, Short, Silent

    Synopsis

    A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the life cycles of the Ailanthus silkmoth and the Red Admiral butterfly, which anthropomorphised the insects in terms of their behavioural resemblance to human activities.

    Synopsis

    A short black-and-white silent documentary film featuring the life cycles of the Ailanthus silkmoth and the Red Admiral butterfly, which anthropomorphised the insects in terms of their behavioural resemblance to human activities.