{"id":4502,"date":"2013-12-03T22:19:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T05:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/?p=4502"},"modified":"2021-02-06T09:49:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T16:49:01","slug":"cicada-the-insect-methuselah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/cicada-the-insect-methuselah\/","title":{"rendered":"Cicada &#8211; The Insect Methuselah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a film on 16mm (what they showed to kids in school before VHS tapes were popular) called <em>Cicada &#8211; The Insect Methuselah<\/em>. I would love to see it, but I don&#8217;t have a 16mm projector (who does?) The film is presumably about 17\/13 Year cicadas. I held the film up to a light, and it indeed features the Magicicada species.<\/p>\n<p>The film was produced by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moody.edu\/\">Moody Institute of Science<\/a> in 1955, and I assume they still hold the copyright to the film. It is 12 minutes in length. <\/p>\n<p>Update: Roy Troutman contacted us to let us know that this video footage can be found in another video: The Mystery of The Three Clocks, which you can watch here:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MQmHUFiAAJQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The most impressive thing about the video is the anatomical model of the cicada. I wish I had one (but I might have to go back to the 50&#8217;s to get one).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked up a film on 16mm (what they showed to kids in school before VHS tapes were popular) called Cicada &#8211; The Insect Methuselah. I would love to see it, but I don&#8217;t have a 16mm projector (who does?) The film is presumably about 17\/13 Year cicadas. I held the film up to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[217,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","category-periodical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}