Learning on ScreenChildren of the Sea!
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 6
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Seals by the thousand basking on an African isle.
Pathe Intertitles - "There was an old seal, Who lived on a n isle, She’d so many children, They quite cramped her style -".
"You are looking at a little African island six thousand miles away, where the only thing they grow is in sealskin - alive -".
"Every year, during the breeding season, thousands of prospective fur coats arrive here - the children of the sea -".
"And all day long they laze on the beaches - and eat, drink and get merry." - Researcher Comments
- A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile.
- Keywords
- Animals
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 30 September 1926 p59.
J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p126.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
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- Length of story (in feet)
- 140
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