Spiders on a Web
| Spiders on a Web | |
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| Directed by | George Albert Smith |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Silent |
Spiders on a Web is a 1900 British short silent documentary film, directed by George Albert Smith, featuring a single shot close-up of two spiders trapped in an enclosure (not on a web as indicated in the title). The film is, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "less formally ambitious" than the director's "groundbreaking multiple close-up study Grandma's Reading Glass (1900), made the same year, but is nonetheless, "one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography, predating Percy Smith's insect studies by a decade."[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Brooke, Michael. "Spiders on a Web". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ "Spiders on a Web". WildFilmHistory. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
External links
[edit]- Spiders on a Web on screenonline.org.uk
- Spiders on a Web on wildfilmhistory.org (direct link)
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