Pinning mosquitoes.

Date:
1953
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Pinning mosquitoes. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

The film shows how mosquitoes should be pinned, how to mount and label pinned insects for permanent display, and how to pack them for dispatch through the post. 1 segment.

Publication/Creation

UK : Wellcome Trust, 1953.

Physical description

1 encoded moving image (5.12 min.) : sound, color

Duration

00:05:12

Copyright note

Wellcome Trust; 2009

Terms of use

Unrestricted
CC-BY-NC
Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales

Language note

In English

Creator/production credits

Wellcome Foundation Film Unit in collaboration with the Department of Entomology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Photographed by Douglas Fisher.

Contents

Segment 1 A pinned mosquito is shown. A collection of mosquitoes is shown, mounted and stored under glass. The narrator explains that the insect must be pinned so it can be viewed from any angle. Various methods of killing mosquitoes are demonstrated, including the use of chloroform and tobacco smoke. Next, the equipment required is shown and a mosquito is pinned. The mosquito is mounted for display and labelled. A solution of chloroform is used to preserve the specimen. The mosquitoes are packed correct for postage. Time start: 00:00:00:00 Time end: 00:05:12:13 Length: 00:05:12:13

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