We put the world before you by means of the Bioscope and Urban films (Nov 1903)

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4 70 2030 ENLARGED VIEWS OF HONEYCOMB AND BEES This presents a scene of great animation. The liees arc Been running over the comb, filling the cells with honey and feeding the young. Length 50 feet. 2031 Special ... THE BROOD COMB IN VARIOUS STAGES The frame or foundation ready for the bees to work into comb. The foundation worked by the bees into brood comb. Later stage of the brood comb when the cells containing the pupae have been clipped and the young bees are eme-rging from the cells. Workers swarming in a great mass round the queen on the brood comb. Length 100 feet. 2032 Special ... DRONE, QUEEN AND WORKER BEE CELLS ON THE COMB In the spring the bees form on certain parts of the brood comb somewhat large cells in which the drone eggs are deposited by the queen. These drone cells, when the larvae drones have changed to pupa' within them, are covered over with dome shaped caps. The queen cells are always the largest that the bees construct, and are generally built upon the edge of the comb; in shape they somewhat resemble a mulberry. Two views of queen cells are shown ; in the first the young queen is within the cell, passing through the pupae stage of her lite, she changes from a tmv maggot-like creature to tin perfect u inged insect. In the second view of the royal cells, tlic young queens have just emerged and we see the cells with the caps or doors icinoved. The worker bees are seen busy attending to the larvae or bee comb. The queen bee, who is somewhat larger than her subjects and has a longer body, is seen going over the brood combs depositing her eggs. This last subject is quite unique. Length 150 feet. 2033 Special ... THE LAUGHING CHAMELEON An unique and most amusing subject. The Chameleon in a merry mood turns his head in all directions, rolls his eyes, and opens his mouth to its widest, as if shouting with laughter. A capital companion to Nos. 2013 and 2021. Length 50 feet. 2034 Special ... THE BABYHOOD OF THE WHITE RAT Mother rat on the edge of the nest, mounting guard on her new born babies. A closer view shows the nest so neatly and cleverly constructed from soft sweet scented hay and the little naked pink skinned baby rat only an hour old. The baby rats at a week after their birth, with mother rat at her toilet. The babies a fortnight old have got their beautiful white clothing. At three weeks old they are full of fun and scamper about. Length 100 feet. 2035 THE TOADS FROLIC This is a subject full of most laughable, grotesque, and sensational effects. The toads ride along on a tortoise, thoroughly enjoying themselves. Then a chameleon mounts on to the flagstaff carried on the back of the tortoise, and shouts his orders as he rides along to the toad escorting him