The frog

Duration: 0:11:13

Genre: Animal | Educational

Year Published: 1957

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica Films Inc.: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Presents the life cycle of the frog, its means of survival, man's use of frogs, and the characteristics of amphibians. Explains what animals are included in the amphibia and compares amphibia with the fishes and reptiles. Through time-lapse cinephotomicrography, shows the development of the frog embryo and their hatching from eggs. Morphologically depicts a tadpole and a frog and by slow-motion photography pictures frogs catching insects. Outlines some of the characteristics of frogs which assist them in survival. Tells how man uses frogs as food and biological studies.

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