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    How a Mosquito Operates is a 1912 silent animated film by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. The six-minute short depicts a giant mosquito tormenting a...
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    himself: How a Mosquito Operates in 1912, and 1921's Bug Vaudeville, The Pet, and The Flying House. The strip is said to have anticipated a number of...
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    Mosquitoes, the Culicidae, are a family of small flies consisting of 3,600 species. The word mosquito (formed by mosca and diminutive -ito) is Spanish...
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    with How a Mosquito Operates, in which a giant, naturalistically animated mosquito sucks the blood of a sleeping man. McCay gave the mosquito a personality...
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    devote more time to animation. He followed up Little Nemo with How a Mosquito Operates in 1912 and his best-known film, Gertie the Dinosaur, in 1914....
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    followed McCay's earlier successes in animation: Little Nemo (1911), How a Mosquito Operates (1912), and Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). McCay drew these earlier...
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    1932) Barry Lyndon (UK/USA, 1975) The Emigrants (Sweden, 1970) How a Mosquito Operates (USA, 1912) I Am Cuba (Cuba, 1964) Jules and Jim (France, 1962)...
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    film, How a Mosquito Operates, based on a Rarebit Fiend episode from June 5, 1909, in which a man in bed tries in vain to defend himself from a giant...
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  • released. 1909 –To Demonstrate How Spiders Fly 1910 – The Clown and His Donkey 1911 – Little Nemo 1912 – How a Mosquito Operates 1913 – Colonel Heeza Liar...
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    cartooning. Inspired by Winsor McCay's animated films, such as How a Mosquito Operates, Messmer began creating his own comics for local newspapers in...
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