How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? dancing on a needle's point occurs in an expository work by the English divine, William Sclater (1575-1626). In "An exposition with notes vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians" (1619), Sclater claimed that scholastic philosophers occupied themselves with such pointless questions as whether angels "did occupie a place; and so, whether many might be in one place at one time; and how many might sit on a Needles point; and six hundred such like needlesse points." Harrison proposes that the reason an English writer first introduced the "needle’s point" into a critique of medieval angelology is that it makes for
How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels the animation category at the Chicago International Film Festival. How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels is a 1996 animated short by Canadian animator Craig Welch, produced by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). While Welch's first film with the NFB, 1992's "No Problem", was influenced by the comic style of NFB animators Cordell Barker and Richard Condie, "How Wings Are Attached to the Backs of Angels" marked a distinct change in artistic direction, exploring such darker themes as death and desire, in a style that has been