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The Dangers of the Fly is an educational film made by Ernesto Gunche and Eduardo Martínez de la Pera, also responsible for Gaucho Nobility (1915), the biggest blockbuster of Argentinean silent cinema. De la Pera was a talented photographer, always willing to try new gadgets and techniques. This film experiments with microphotography in the style of Jean Comandon's films for Pathé and it is part of a series which included a film about mosquitoes and paludism and another one about cancer, which are considered lost. Flies were a popular subject of silent films and there are more than a dozen titles featuring them in the teens and early twenties.
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The Dangers of the Fly was released on November 23, 1920.
The runtime of The Dangers of the Fly is 36m.
The Dangers of the Fly is a Documentary movie.
The Dangers of the Fly has a rating of 5.4 out of 10 on TMDB.
The Dangers of the Fly is available to watch. Check streaming platforms and theaters near you.
The Dangers of the Fly was directed by Enrique Ernesto Gunche.
The Dangers of the Fly is originally in Spanish.