Blue book of audio-visual materials (1920)

62 1001 FILMS ENTOMOLOGY ♦Film titles marked with an asterisk (*) have been reviewed and approved by the National Motion Picture League of New York. Acrobatic Fly. 200 feet. Nature and science study. University of Wisconsin. A Day with John Burroughs.* Reel, 1; producer, Prizma; exchange, World. Remarks: John Burroughs, barn-door study with children, chipmunk, blue birds' nest, an orderly kingdom of ants, flower and weeds for insects, magnifying the flower, the grasshopper as clown of the insects, and making her toilet, wood frog, drinking at nature's fountain, the spring. Ants. About 350 feet. The ant's intelligence, especially the wood ants. Unusually site for a home — a nest in a hollow post. Intruders are promptly dealt with. Ants love honey. Comparison in size — wood ants and a florin. A small snail aggravates them. Wood-louse. Pupae removed to a place of safety by ants in case of disturbance. Head of wood ant. Antenna. Front legs furnished with a brush and comb. Ants conversing. Antics of sentinels. Kineto Company of America. Ants. Interesting study of the ant, showing their tiny city; close-ups of the male, female and worker; their sharp mandibles; how they talk; hatching of the larvse; methods of feeding, and protection of their homes. The Pathescope Co. of America, Cotton's Worst Enemy—The Pink Boll Worm. Reel, 1. Insects attacking plants; recent discovery; fumigation of imported cotton; distinction between pink boll worm and boll weevil. U. S. Agricultural Department. Enemies of the Garden. (500.) The Living Book of Nature. A picture opportune at any time. These strange monsters of our own backyards are worth careful study, and are quite as interesting to the observer who has no time or opportunity for a garden plot. The closing scene shows a great toad — prize "bug catcher" of them all, on the lookout for his next meal. Educational Films Corporation. Insects. About 400 feet. The gardener's arch-enemy — Aphides or "green fly." Effect of a spray of soft soap on quassie. Smaller dose of nicotine is just as deadly. Aphides. Beautiful lace-wing fly. Hover-fly (Syrphus). By "magnification of speed" showing three weeks' growth of hedge mustard in a few moments. Magots — Eristalis — Earwig. The head of JEschna, the giant dragon-fly. Honey-bees and wasp for comparison. Humble-bees. Action of their tongue. Tongue of honey-bee for comparison. Kineto Company of America. Insect Faces. About 400 feet. Getting Close to Nature. Have you ever looked a honey bee squarely in the face? The cabbage butterfly. The bumble bee. Pissaura — hunting spider. Wood-boring wasp. Noctua — a night-flying moth. The robber bee. Tipula, the crane fly. Syriphids or hovering flies. Kineto Company of America. Life of a Moth. (580.) The Living Book of Nature. With the coming of spring the cameras at the Ditmar's Studio are turned on the insect world. It is among the tiny creatures of Nature that the magic eye of the scientist's camera discovers the greatest wonders. Here are pictures of fragile and beautiful creatures seldom seen except in their native haunts. Educational Films Corporation. Life in the Insect World. (300.) The Living Book of Nature. A host of strange things that would be difficult to understand from mere written description in a book. An insect which exactly resembles a bunch of leaves, and whose eggs are exact copies of the seeds of the plant on which it feeds, is just one peculiar specimen that is described and illustrated. Educational Films Corporation.