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Bee's Eviction, The (1909)
 

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Two men, one of whom is the filmmaker, J.C. Bee-Mason, remove some tiles from the wall beneath a windowsill in order to take a swarm of bees. One of them uses a smoke apparatus to keep the bees at bay while he places the honeycombs in a box. In another part of the wall they find honeycombs four feet long. Finally the two men entice the swarm into the new hive.