| The Cheese Mites | |
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Screenshot from the film |
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| Directed by | F. Martin Duncan |
| Produced by | Charles Urban |
| Cinematography | F. Martin Duncan |
| Studio | Charles Urban Trading Company |
| Release date(s) | August 1903 |
| Running time | 49 secs extant |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Silent |
The Cheese Mites (1903) is a British short silent documentary film, produced by Charles Urban and directed by F. Martin Duncan,
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A gentleman is put off his lunch by a microscopic view of the cheese mites in his Stilton cheese sandwich.
The film, "was the sensation of the first public programme of scientific films in Britain shown at the Alhambra Music Hall in Leicester Square, London, in August 1903," with according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "its claim to being scientific lay in its being shot through a microscope, revealing to a lay audience sights that would normally only have been available to owners of microscopes."[1][2]
The British Film Institute reports that 49 seconds of the film is extant.