Learning on ScreenThe Smallest Soul in Feathers
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: "Seemingly like a knot on a branch, but in reality the home of the hummingbird." C/U of a hummingbird sitting in its funny nest. Closer shot of the bird. Another angle of the bird and nest - from behind. "The eggs are the daintiest things in birdland." C/U of the nest with two eggs visible. "Babies - three dozen make a handful." C/U of an outstretched hand with two tiny baby birds held inside it. C/U of the babies. "Honey, fresh from the flowers, is their food." C/U of hummingbird hovering over a flower. Another shot of a hummingbird feeding from a flower. MS of bird in nest being fed by a parent. "With 25 meals a day, the young grow until they are too large for the tiny nest" L/S of baby bird on a branch. C/U of the bird. "Trusting friends - " C/U of man holding a hand out, in his hand sits two baby birds and the parent bird comes and feeds the young whilst they are held in the hand. A baby bird sits on a little girls’ shoulder and a parent bird sits beside it.
- Researcher Comments
- A handwritten shot list is present in the Pathé boxfile.
- Keywords
- Birds
- Footage sources
- Pathe Exchange
- Written sources
- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.199
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP199
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile Issue sheet
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- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 138
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