Film Record: Birdland Homes

Identifier:

• 3123 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)

Date produced: 1934

Filmmaker(s):

Phillips

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:10:41

Length:

400 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Awarded Wallace Heaton Trophy in the 1935 IAC Competition

Description:

"Documentary on the nesting and feeding habits of birds found in Norfolk and Lincolnshire and filmed from a hide over a two-month period. Birds seen are: common plover, redshank, whooper swan, mute swan, bittern, ringed plover, oyster catcher, black-head gull, bearded tit, sedge warbler, reed bunting, red hawk, snipe and Montagu's harrier." (EAFA Database)

Resources:

IAC Film Library Catalogue (Silent and Sound). Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 1975.
This film is part of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection held by the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich, UK.

Locations:

• Norfolk, UK (Filming)
• Lincolnshire,UK (Filming)

Subjects:

•      England
•      Birds

Genre:

• Documentary
• Nature

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive

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