How a Mosquito Operates his later films. McCay finished drawing the film in December 1911. A snowstorm hit when he was to have the drawings taken to Vitagraph Studios for photographing, so he hired an enclosed horse-drawn taxi to have them taken there. It disappeared, and a few days later the police found the abandoned taxi with the drawings unharmed inside, the horses two to three miles away. The first attempt to shoot the artwork resulted in unacceptable amounts of flicker due the arc lighting the studio used, and it was re-shot. The completed work came to 600 feet of film. "How a Mosquito
Nelson A. Miles was likely named for him. Nelson M. Holderman, himself a Medal of Honor recipient, was also named after Miles. Miles' legacy as an Indian fighter has seen him portrayed by Kevin Tighe in the film "" and by Shaun Johnston in the film adaptation of "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee". There is a bust of General Miles in the Massachusetts State Capitol in Boston. General Miles' son, Sherman Miles, was a career Army officer who graduated from West Point in 1905 and rose to the rank of major general during World War II. Nelson A. Miles Nelson Appleton Miles