House Fly, The (2nd Edition)

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: 06:14:55:27 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.; 06:15:34:26 1950s housewife pours milk into mixing bowl, CU woman holds electric mixer in bowl with one hand and shoos fly away with other.; 06:15:48:00 Woman pours batter into pan, flies fly around the batter.; 06:15:57:08 Decaying animal carcass swarmed by flies.; 06:15:59:23 Pan over open garbage dump.; 06:16:08:10 Cute little girl in party hat eats birthday cake, little girl shoos flies away from her cake.; 06:16:28:27 Sick baby about three years old stands up in crib with fingers in mouth crying.; 06:16:33:07 CU two milk bottles with house flies on them.; 06:16:44:13 VS CU housefly, Head, Thorax and Abdominal labels are superimposed over shot of fly, VS CU fly anatomy.; 06:18:53:15 Three chopped off fish heads infested with flies.; 06:19:42:20 Disembodied hands remove one fly with tweezers from Petri dish and places it into another Petri dish.; 06:19:53:06 MS scientist places Petri dish under microscope and looks into microscope.; 06:20:08:26 CU housefly.; 06:21:15:08 CU man trying to get a fly off his ice cream.; 06:22:17:04 CU hand with knife sifting through rotting garbage, garbage is festering with maggots.; 06:22:47:05 CU female fly lays eggs through her ovipositor, VS CU fly eggs, CU hatching maggots, CU larvae, flies breaking out of their pupil case, VS CU flies.; 06:26:54:18 Fly caught in spiders web, spiders begins to wrap fly in web.; 06:27:07:15 CU woman with electric mixer, stops mixing batter, grabs fly swatter and swats fly on counter top.; 06:27:24:01 Disembodied hand on left edge of frame sprays insecticide into living room.; 06:27:33:06 Entomologist uses Nuclear Measurements machine.; 06:28:29:28 Farmer spreads insecticide poison bate over mud outside of cattle pens.; 06:29:00:14 Dump truck dumping trash in open landfill.; 06:29:46:08 Early sewage treatment plant.; 06:30:04:19 Man fly fishing catches fish.