Other Studios: K: Kineto Film Productions: To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly

• Kineto Film Productions

• Featuring:

   Spider.

• Originally Released in 1909 (Estimate).

• Originally Released Theatrically.

• Running Time:

   0:58 minutes.

• Black & White

• United Kingdom

Silent film.

Stop-motion animation, with live-action footage of a spider at the end.

Frank Percy Smith believed that he could cure people of their fear of spiders by showing them blown-up images of their eight-legged foes on the cinema screen. The model spider seen here is the first of several animated creatures to appear in Smith's films.