With a spooky soundtrack lurking behind its close-up footage of the small creatures, this vintage arachnid video shows the amazing web weaving feats of spiders. This DVD contains some of the best classic spider footage around!
Included Films:
Spider Engineers
Spider Engineers
Produced: 1956
Length: 16 Minutes
The itsy bitsy spider crawled up the water spout…not just a childish nursery rhyme but an homage to a creative and complex creature. Using humans architectural feats as a basis for comparison, the spider is shown creating designs as mind boggling as they are useful. Even though there are an estimated 100,000 species of spiders, four types are focused on for the purposes of education: the orb weaver, the bolas spider, the diving spider and the trapdoor spider. Their webs and the way they are designed are the focus as the narrator attempts to explain how even though we have created designs that make cities soar, nature had it first. A bit heavy on the creationist belief of nature, the film highlights some fascinating facts about that creepy, crawly spider crawling up your drain.
