How a Mosquito Operates is a 1912 silent animated short film by the American cartoonist Winsor McCay. The six-minute short depicts a giant mosquito tormenting...
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Dream of the Rarebit Fiend (redirect from Dreams of a rarebit fiend)
himself: How a Mosquito Operates in 1912, and 1921's Bug Vaudeville, The Pet, and The Flying House. The strip is said to have anticipated a number of...
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Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive -ito) is Spanish...
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animated film, McCay had previously made Little Nemo (1911) and How a Mosquito Operates (1912). The American J. Stuart Blackton and the French Émile Cohl...
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devote more time to animation. He followed up Little Nemo with How a Mosquito Operates in 1912 and his best-known film, Gertie the Dinosaur, in 1914....
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Matthew (Italy, 1964) Here Is Your Life (Sweden, 1966) How a Mosquito Operates (USA, 1912) Loves of a Blonde (Czechoslovakia, 1965) Some Like It Hot (USA...
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film, How a Mosquito Operates, based on a Rarebit Fiend episode from June 5, 1909, in which a man in bed tries in vain to defend himself from a giant...
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followed McCay's earlier successes in animation: Little Nemo (1911), How a Mosquito Operates (1912), and Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). McCay drew these earlier...
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cartooning. Inspired by Winsor McCay's animated films, such as How a Mosquito Operates, Messmer began creating his comics for local newspapers in 1912...
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to several different villains. Winsor McCay in How a Mosquito Operates had a cartoon mosquito torment a human being and in 1925, Walt Disney created Pete...
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McCay are How a Mosquito Operates (1912) and The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918). Between 1915 and 1916 Dudley Buxton and Anson Dyer produced a series of...
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Arthropods in film (section A Bug's Life)
animation, made the first animated film about insects in 1912, titled How a Mosquito Operates. In the early 20th century, it was technically easier to include...
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1912 in film (section A)
Stuff, directed by and starring Mack Sennett, with Mabel Normand How a Mosquito Operates, directed by Winsor McCay Indian Romeo and Juliet, directed by...
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List of films: H (section How-Hoz)
a Mosquito Operates (1912) How Much Wood Would a Woodchuck Chuck (1976) How to Murder Your Wife (1965) How to Play Baseball (1942) How to Please a Woman...
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released. 1909 – To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly 1910 – The Clown and His Donkey 1911 – Little Nemo 1912 – How a Mosquito Operates 1913 – Colonel Heeza Liar...
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Mosquito control manages the population of mosquitoes to reduce their damage to human health, economies, and enjoyment. Control strategies range from...
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and Walter Lantz (later of Woody Woodpecker fame). The cartoon studio operated from circa 1914 until 1928. Some of the first cartoon stars from the Bray...
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The de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito is a British twin-engined, multirole combat aircraft, introduced during the Second World War. Unusual in that its airframe...
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Mosquito-borne diseases or mosquito-borne illnesses are diseases caused by bacteria, viruses or parasites transmitted by mosquitoes. Nearly 700 million...
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registration marks, and cycling, directed the animated films Little Nemo, How a Mosquito Operates, Gertie the Dinosaur, The Sinking of the Lusitania, and The Centaurs)...
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Composer: Club Foot Orchestra) Koko Convict (1992, Composer: Kirk) How a Mosquito Operates (1992, Composer: Boisen) Cops (1993, Composers: Kirk, Brown, Boisen)...
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Winsor McCay's "How a Mosquito Operates"). He picked Edison Studios to produce his cartoons and while visiting the studio, met Bill Nolan, a live-action shorts...
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registration marks, and cycling, directed the animated films Little Nemo, How a Mosquito Operates, Gertie the Dinosaur, The Sinking of the Lusitania, and The Centaurs)...
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Events in 1912 in animation. January – How a Mosquito Operates (United States) 27 October – The Cameraman's Revenge (Russia) January 12: Sara Berner,...
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'One Story Multiple Events' in how a mosquito operates by Mahony (ISBN 978-3-943196-24-5) 'Paris is a Forest, Rome is a Relic' in Anecdotal by Jani Ruscica...
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The de Havilland Mosquito was a British light bomber that served in many roles during and after the Second World War. Mosquito-equipped squadrons performed...
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Broken Dimanche Press (category Articles with a promotional tone from March 2016)
Residency Programme, Agora, 2014 Nuances of No, Hanne Lippard, 2013 How a mosquito operates, Mahony, 2013 Études des Gottnarrenmaschinen, Shane Andreson, 2012...
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Fly-killing device (redirect from Mosquito bat)
A fly-killing device is used for pest control of flying insects, such as houseflies, wasps, moths, gnats, and mosquitoes. A flyswatter (or fly-swat, fly...
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1915) was a Cuban epidemiologist recognized as a pioneer in the research of yellow fever, determining that it was transmitted through mosquitoes Aedes aegypti...
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Miskito people (redirect from Mosquito Nation)
Cape Camarón, Honduras, to Río Grande de Matagalpa, Nicaragua, along the Mosquito Coast, in the Western Caribbean zone. The Miskito people are descendants...
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