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Edwardian Insects on Film (2013)
Directed by John Holdsworth
Documentary · 59m
In 1908, amateur naturalist and pioneering filmmaker Percy Smith stunned early cinema goers with his footage of the juggling fly. Hailed as the father of Natural History film, Smith was a hugely influential visual pioneer, inventing many techniques that are still used today. Being both a genius and an eccentric, we follow his life from his earliest films, to the collapse of his house from his mould experiment to his ultimate suicide. We also meet Natural History icon Sir David Attenborough, who was so amazed by Smith’s films in the 1930s that they inspired him to get into natural history.
Cast
Charlie Hamilton James
Self - Presenter
David Attenborough
Self
D
Dr Tim Boon
Self - Science Museum, London
D
David Cleveland
Self - Film Archivist
T
Tim Cockerill
Self - Entomologist
B
Bryony Dixon
Self - Curator, Silent Film, BFI
J
Jenny Hammerton
Self - Film Archivist
M
Michael Harvey
Self - National Media Museum
P
Percy Smith
Self - archive footage
J
John Winder
Self - Scientist & Collector
Crew
- Director
- John Holdsworth
- Director of Photography
- John Holdsworth
- Editor
- Rich Wheat
- Producer
- John Holdsworth
Details
- Release date
- 2013-03-19
- Runtime
- 59m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- National Media Museum, BFI National Archive, BBC, Mentorn Media