{"id":39,"date":"2019-12-05T18:39:52","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/?p=39"},"modified":"2019-12-05T22:35:09","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:35:09","slug":"to-demonstrate-how-spiders-fly-1909","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/2019\/12\/05\/to-demonstrate-how-spiders-fly-1909\/","title":{"rendered":"To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly (1909)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly<\/em> is a very short educational film (it&#8217;s only a minute long), made using stop-motion animation to explain how spiders travel across unexpectedly large distances. It was directed by <em>F. Percy Smith<\/em>, a naturalist and photographer who helped pioneer the use of many now-familiar film-making techniques, such as time-lapse sequences.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/spiders001s.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"605\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72\" srcset=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/spiders001s.png 800w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/spiders001s-300x227.png 300w, https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/spiders001s-768x581.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I love spiders and I love stop-motion creatures and I utterly love this. What a wonderful thing.<\/p>\n<p>And a hundred and ten years old.<\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. <em>I watched this, yes, via the BFI Player &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/player.bfi.org.uk\/free\/film\/watch-to-demonstrate-how-spiders-fly-1909-online\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n2. <em>I think this may be my favourite thing<\/em><br \/>\n3. <em>I just wish I&#8217;d seen it earlier so I could have incorporated this knowledge into <a href=\"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/things\/2018\/07\/02\/spiders-are-wonderful\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Spiders Are Wonderful<\/a> (multiple winner of the factual book of the year award in 2011).<\/em><\/p>\n<p>__________<\/p>\n<p><strong>Film Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Title:<\/strong> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/player.bfi.org.uk\/free\/film\/watch-to-demonstrate-how-spiders-fly-1909-online\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Director:<\/strong> <em>F. Percy Smith<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Year:<\/strong> <em>1909<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Runtime:<\/strong> <em>1 minute<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly is a very short educational film (it&#8217;s only a minute long), made using stop-motion animation to explain how spiders travel across unexpectedly large distances. It was directed by F. Percy Smith, a naturalist and photographer who helped pioneer the use of many now-familiar film-making techniques, such as time-lapse sequences. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[33,10,38,37,35,34,36],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-this-film-is-more-than-100-years-old","tag-33","tag-animation","tag-educational-films","tag-f-percy-smith","tag-nature","tag-spiders","tag-stop-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/76"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accumulationofthings.com\/100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}