# The Cheese Mites (1903)

The Cheese Mites (1903) is a British short silent documentary film, produced by Charles Urban and directed by F. Martin Duncan. Part of Charles Urban's 1903 'Unseen World' series, which brought the microscopic world to the screen, Cheese Mites showed large-as-crabs mites wandering about the nation's favourite lunchtime snack to the joyful disgust of audiences. For 80 years the BFI's archives held only the shot of the creepy crawlies. Now, however, a new version has been discovered, with an opening showing a professor (F Martin Duncan) horrified by examining his bread and cheese through a magnifying glass.

- Kind: Short
- Year: 1903
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: Francis Martin-Duncan (1873–1961)
- Genres: Silent
- Archive: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Cheese_Mites_(1903).ogv)
- Licence or status: Public domain (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Francis Martin-Duncan (1873–1961)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/commons/113558714?play=1)