The Balancing Blue-Bottle

Percy Smith was a natural history film maker. Fascinated with plants and animals he made short films about them. To his wife's great frustration, every room in the house became dedicated to a different life cycle and allegedly his home is no longer in existence as nature, in particular, moulds, took it over. Here is one of his most famous clips, of a fly glued down upside down, twirling objects in his legs. Despite the fact that Percy Smith is said to have freed the flies at the end of each film, this still is cruel.