Doors open at 6 p.m., and introductory remarks by organizer May Berenbaum, the head of the U. of I. department of entomology, begin at 7 p.m. The auditorium at Lincoln Hall seats 725 people, more than double the capacity of the festival's previous site at the Natural History Building. People left because there wasn't enough room. In addition to three main films, the festival will include a petting zoo featuring insects and other arthropods, specimen exhibits, a student art exhibit, cartoons and short films. Berenbaum will introduce each of the feature films by alerting audience members to the scientific inaccuracies, bad dialogue and poor production values coming their way.
Arthropods are animals with external skeletons and jointed legs.
They include but aren't limited to insects. It's not really fair. In this 1957 film directed by Edward Ludwig, a volcano erupts and unleashes a deadly scorpion in Mexico. Co-producer William Dyke was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Wisconsin. Short films will be shown throughout the evening.