The Cheese Mites

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The Cheese Mites (1903)

A gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the chees...Read allA gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the cheese is a little out of the ordinary, and examines it with his glass. To his horror, he finds...Read allA gentleman is here shown partaking of a little lunch of bread and cheese, and occasionally is seen to glance at his morning paper through a reading glass. He suddenly notices that the cheese is a little out of the ordinary, and examines it with his glass. To his horror, he finds it to be alive with mites, and, in disgust, leaves the table. Hundreds of mites resemblin...Read all

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      The first science film made for the public.
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    A gentleman enjoying his Stilton makes the mistake of examining the cheese through a magnifying glass, only to discover that it is swarming with tiny creatures. Urban's short film was one of the earliest presentations of moving images taken through a microscope and was a hit at a public programme of scientific films presented in London in 1903. The images of the tiny arthropods were generated by F. Martin Duncan. Apparently contemporary audiences were both shocked and amused, similar to modern reactions to electron microscope images of the very tiny creatures that live on human hosts (such as eye-lash mites). The film was spoofed in the same year in 'The Unclean World', in which the tiny creatures infesting the cheese turn out to be wind-up toys.

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