The Man and the Snake

Duration: 26

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Jocelyn Film

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Dramatizes Ambrose Bierce's story about a man who did not believe that snakes could charm men. Tells of the young man's stay at the home of a zoologist who keeps and studies snakes and his death at the hands of a snake which charms him, a snake which turns out to be a stuffed toy. Observes that it is really man's own fear which kills him., A: Access CP: Composite Positive AC: Acetate B: 800' 16/8/9.5mm 16mm Color Sound 800

Complete Record: Dramatizes Ambrose Bierce's story about a man who did not believe that snakes could charm men. Tells of the young man's stay at the home of a zoologist who keeps and studies snakes and his death at the hands of a snake which charms him, a snake which turns out to be a stuffed toy. Observes that it is really man's own fear which kills him., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.


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Indiana University Library Moving Image Archive, Library of Congress


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