Colour: Osprey

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2242
Date Released
22 May 1972
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Monaco Grand Prix
  2. 2St George’s Day in Malta
  3. 3Matchstick Furniture
  4. 4One Room Living
  5. 5Little Train
  6. 6Colour: Osprey

Story

Story No. within this Issue
6 / 6
Section Title
Colour
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Osprey - in Colour. DESCRIPTION: After an absence of 50 years, Ospreys or Fish Eagles look like starting another colony in Scotland. Last year some eggs of the only known Scottish Osprey were stolen, this year the RSPB have mounted a 24 hour guard. The 3 eggs should hatch any minute now. Every year some 40,000 people visit the RSPB post and look at the birds through binoculars. SHOTLIST: SV road sign Aviemore A951, Nethy Br. B970 zoom into osprey’s trees through observation slit in hide. SV osprey in tree. GV woodland. SV barbed wire round base of tree pan up tree trunk to osprey sitting on top. CU sign on wooden building The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. LS towards, two people walking along country path towards RSPB building. LS RSPB building through trees. SV interior the two boys walk over to window of RSPB building. CU one of the boys looking through binoculars. LS osprey on nest at top of tree. SV RSPB observation hut. CU binoculars. SV pan osprey circles round & comes in to land on nest. SCU binoculars watching. SV pan osprey circles round, joined by second osprey as it comes in to land on top of tree.
Keywords
Animals
Locations
Scotland
Card file number
98068A
Credits:
Camera
Denis White
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
168
Story extras:
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