City of Wax
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | City of Wax |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1934 |
| length | 9 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Horace Woodard , Stacy Woodard |
| production | Stacy Woodard, Horace Woodard for Skibo Productions |
City of Wax is an American documentary short film released in 1934 .
action
The film follows the development of a bee larva into a young worker bee, shows the life of a bee colony and presents the function and life of the queen of a beehive.
production
City of Wax was part of a series of nature films that Stacy and Horace Woodard produced for Skibo and the Educational Films Corporation of America. Critics called his recordings made with microscope camera technology remarkable. The film received a copyright entry on February 9, 1934. The film's narrator is Gayne Whitman .
Awards
City of Wax received an Oscar in 1935 in the " Best Short Film - Novelty " category .
Web links
- City of Wax in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Jani Scandura: Down in the dumps: place, modernity, American Depression . Duke University Press, Minnesota 2008, p. 199.