The one redeeming value of mosquitoes is that you can slap them into pulp. But when they grow to 3-foot proportions they become a bit formidable. They become everyone's worst nightmare. Yet we here in the developed world have only the tiniest inkling of the gravity of the nature of the interaction between people and mosquitoes. Such is the case in the night's feature films, which are still in the process of being arranged.
Most films fail to show mosquitoes as vectors.
They account for millions of deaths and illnesses worldwide every year. Their true nature isn't shown. Males feed on plant juices, and juvenile mosquitoes on decaying plant debris in standing or slow-moving water. The films begin at 7 p.m. with an hour of short films that span eight decades. Also to be shown are old public education films, which are worth seeing not only for the biological information they contain but also for the sociological changes that have occurred since they were released.