The Dangers of the Fly

Name: The Dangers of the Fly
Released: 1920-11-23
Rating: 5.4

5.4/10 (7)

·1920· 36 min

Director: Enrique Ernesto Gunche

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.

In brief

The Dangers of the Fly (1920) is a documentary film. With an average rating of 5.4/10 from 7 votes, viewer opinions are mixed. The film runs 36min. Check current streaming availability in the "Where to watch" section above.

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The Dangers of the Fly runs 36 minutes (36min).

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The Dangers of the Fly has an average rating of 5.4/10 based on 7 viewer votes on TMDB.

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The Dangers of the Fly was released in 1920.