The Cheese Mites
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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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Plot
A gentleman is put off his lunch by a microscopic view of the cheese mites in his Stilton cheese sandwich.
Production background
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". 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."
Urban legend?
Supposedly, the film was the object of the first ever demand for film censorship in Britain from the cheese industry following a scientific film by Charles Urban revealing the bacterial activity in a piece of Stilton
Preservation status
The British Film Institute reports that 49 seconds of the film is extant.
