18 Oct 1932
Microscopic Mysteries
This short film takes a look through a microscope's lens at insect life.
Underground Farmers
within the forest of equatorial South-America there exists a unique society that is indeed a wonderment to behold
Ages before man proclaimed himself a superior being, the tiny ant had developed the art of agriculture — a practice which was later to be the backbone of human society.
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