XIII 

 THE FLY 



THE life story of the fly is told from the picture 

 standpoint, and how the results were obtained. 

 The work was done for Eastman Teaching Films, 

 who furnished a scenario of fifty-nine scenes. They 

 were all made and some fifteen others which seemed 

 essential to the story, which was divided into four 

 units: life history of the fly, structure of the adult 

 fly, the fly as a health danger and control of their 

 breeding. The footage of each scene was left to me. 

 The total was to be one reel; it worked out to over 

 two. 



The story started with a long shot of a pigpen 

 and it was typical of a truck gardener's idea of what 

 a place of that sort should be. The cobwebs all 

 around it were the only method of fly control, they 

 added to its beauty (?). It was only a few feet square 

 with a small, dark, cooler retiring place for the poor 

 fat porker. 



This home of flies and pigs was chosen because no 

 flies were available in my home, while in the pigsty 

 I could put an old-fashioned round top fly trap six 

 inches in diameter down on a board and catch fifty 



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