How A Mosquito Operates (1912 Film) -- Directed By Windsor McKay -- Full Movie

Windsor McKay is in his summer home in Jersey with his daughter and they are pestered to death by mosquitoes. It is by accident that the artist happens to meet a professor, who says that he is studying the language of the mosquitoes and knows all about them. He suggests that the artist make a series of drawings to illustrate just how the insect does its deadly work. So McKay sets to work and several months later the two of them go to a moving picture studio to see the finished work on the screen. The picture that McKay has drawn shows the adventures of a lonely mosquito getting its dinner on the neck of a fat member of the species human. But the greedy animal overdoes the good thing and is blown to pieces by the explosion that results from the overtaxation of its capacity -- Moving Picture World

Directed by Winsor McCay
Release date

January 1912

Running time
6 minutes
Country United States
Language Silent with English intertitles