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How a Mosquito Operates (1912)

Name: How a Mosquito Operates
Genre: Animation
Released: 1912
Duration: 6 min

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How a Mosquito Operates (1912) is a 6-minute animated cartoon that airs free on Starlite TV's Silent Pictures (CH 12) channel. It is a silent film, presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score. It is in the U.S. public domain.

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About How a Mosquito Operates (1912)

Winsor McCay, creator of the comic strip Little Nemo, was one of animation's founding artists; his Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) is often called the first cartoon with real personality.

How a Mosquito Operates (1912), also known as The Story of a Mosquito , is a silent animated film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay . The six-minute short, about a giant mosquito who torments a sleeping man, is one of the earliest animated films and is noted for the high technical quality of its naturalistic animation, considered far ahead of its contemporaries.

Quick facts

Year: 1912
Runtime: 6 minutes
Type: Cartoon · Animation
Credits (Internet Archive record): Winsor McCay
Sound: Silent film with a CC0 piano score

Synopsis from the Internet Archive item page

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Airs on

Silent Pictures - CH 12, Silent Film TV

Rights & source

Basis: Published before 1931 - U.S. copyright term expired
Evidence: First published 1912 (before 1931): US copyright term has expired.
License on source: creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0
Music: Silent copy with no audio track; CC0 piano bed is played.
Underlying rights: Silent cartoon.
Source: Internet Archive

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