How a Mosquito Operates

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 sixminute 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.

A man looks around apprehensively before entering his room to go to sleep. A giant mosquito with top hat and briefcase flies in through a transom after it finds itself too large to squeeze in through a keyhole. It repeatedly feeds on the sleeping man, who tries in vain to shoo away his assailant. Eventually, the mosquito drinks itself so full that it explodes.How a Mosquito Operates, or The Story of a Mosquito, is one of the earliest examples of linedrawn animation. The film capitalizes on strengths of the film medium, then in its infancy, by making use of physical, visual action. ........

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