The Unclean World (1903)

Original title

The Unclean World: The Suburban-Bunkum Microbe-Guyoscope

Directed by

Percy Stow

Genre

silent film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2 min

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1903 silent short is a parody of popular science films about microbes. It makes fun of the trend by showing a comically exaggerated microscopic world.

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What happens

The Unclean World (o The Unclean World: The Suburban-Bunkum Microbe-Guyoscope) è un cortometraggio muto del 1903 diretto da Percy Stow. Scritto e interpretato da Cecil M. Hepworth, è una parodia di The Cheese Mites, uno dei corti di The Unseen World, una serie di film prodotti da Charles Urban sui microbi che all'epoca ebbero grande successo, incrementando perfino la vendita di microscopi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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