# Winsor McCay - How A Mosquito Operates

Description from Wikipedia : How a Mosquito Operates (1912), also known as The Story of a Mosquito , is a silent animated film by American cartoonist and animator Winsor McCay . The six-minute short, about a giant mosquito who torments a sleeping man, is one of the earliest animated films and is noted for the high technical quality of its naturalistic animation, considered far ahead of its contemporaries.

- Kind: Cartoon
- Year: 1912
- By: Winsor McCay
- Genres: Animation, History, Silent
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/WinsorMcCay1912HowAMosquitoOperates)
- Licence or status: [Public Domain Mark 1.0](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Kids profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/WinsorMcCay1912HowAMosquitoOperates?play=1)