Spiders on a Web

Spiders on a Web is a 1900 British short silent documentary film, directed by George [Albert Smith |George Albert Smith], featuring a single shot close-up of two spiders trapped in an enclosure. The film is, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "less formally ambitious" than the director's "groundbreaking multiple close-up study Grandma's [Reading Glass], made the same year, but is nonetheless, "one of the earliest British examples of close-up natural history photography, predating Percy Smith's insect studies by a decade."