Film Record: Open Your Eyes

Still from Open Your Eyes (1967) via the East Anglian Film Archive

Identifier:

• 228986 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)

Date produced: 1967

Filmmaker(s):

Dorothy Maud Maxey

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:13:56

Length:

60 ft

Format:

Super8

Colour:

Colour

Sound Notes:

Magnetic

Description:

'Amateur filmmaker Dorothy Maxey observes the wildlife in her native Norfolk capturing on Super 8 film a variety of interesting flora and fauna, including at Thompson Common where ponies wade into the pingos and steal the heads from the water violets, and in her own back garden stumbling across wrestling toads. The filmmaker also recalls a story of nursing a poorly mouse following a frosty night by returning home with it to kindly warm him up under the oven grill' (EAFA.org.uk)

Resources:

EAFA (2023). ‘Open Your Eyes.’ Accessed 25 January, 2023. https://eafa.org.uk/work/?id=1136891

Locations:

• Norfolk, UK (Filming)

Subjects:

• Animals
•      Birds
•      Insects
•           Butterflies
• Nature
•      Plants
•           Flowers

Genre:

• Animal
• Documentary
• Educational
• Nature

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

East Anglian Film Archive

Video Link:

• eafa.org.uk

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