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Title
Skilled insect artisans
Type
Moving Image
Monograph
Contribution
Pycraft, W. P. (William Plane), 1868-1942 (editing)
British Instructional Films (Contributor)
Regent Film Company (Contributor)
Bray Productions (Contributor)
Subject
Ailanthus moth (LCSH)
Butterflies (LCSH)
Silent films (LCSH)
Genre Form
Motion pictures (LCGFT)
Documentary films (LCGFT)
Nature films and video (Nonfiction) (MIM)
Shorts (MIM)
Language
English
Classification
LCC: FLA 1567 (ref print) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
LCC: FRA 4004 (dupe neg) (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Content
two-dimensional moving image
Moving Image Technique(s)
live action
Summary
Shows the caterpillar of the Ailanthus silk moth weaving a cocoon, and, at the end of three weeks, dissolving the end of the cocoon and emerging as a moth. Explains that silk cocoons must be harvested before the end of the pupa state in order to be used for making cloth, and demonstrates how the cocoons are unwound into silk thread. Shows the Red Admiral, a British butterfly, in the caterpillar stage building a leaf tent cocoon.
Duration
PT6M
Authorized Access Point
Skilled insect artisans
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: full
Identified By: bf:Local, 11509656
Change Date: 2011-12-21T18:00:36
Creation Date: 1973-07-24
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
Assigner: United States, Library of Congress

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Insect artisans