A professor sits down to lunch. His food tastes strange; he spits some out and puts it under a microscope. Two large insects can be seen crawling around on a piece of cheese, which turn out to be wind-up, mechanical insects. The title of the film parodies the first scientific documentary series in the history of film, The Unseen World, created by amateur scientist and microphotography specialist, Francis Martin Duncan, with producer Charles Urban and presented in London. The mites filmed through the microscope in Duncan’s 1903 Cheese Mites were like monsters on the big screen; the new visual experience was fascinating to the public at the time.

35mm copy from the collection of the Austrian film museum