Learning on ScreenThe Keeper of the Birds. Filmed at Wargrave.
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 4 / 5
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: "Strictly speaking, this is an interview with the Owl Family, from the kind that hails from Malay. (And very fond of mice.)" M/S of two Owls sitting on a perch in a cage. "To the queer "spectacled" variety -" We see the queer "spectacled" variety sitting on a perch. "The famous Cape Eagle Owl is not allowed to leave the Cape nowadays - but this one did." C/U of a Cape Eagle Owl. "And here’s a quaint member for our lady bird fancier to watch, the Turkoman Eagle Owl." C/Us of the same. C/U of the Owl pecking at the glove of a bird handler. Extreme C/U of the Owl. "A long way from England are the Ural Mountains - here’s a member who wasn’t wise enough to stay there - " An elderly woman stands in the cage feeding the bird. It flies around its small cage. "Did you ever hear of Arctic owls? These were caught at sea during migration time..." M/S of two Arctic Owls.
- Researcher Comments
- A handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.
- Keywords
- Birds
- Locations
- England; Berkshire
- Written sources
- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.198
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP198
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile Issue sheet
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- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 182
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