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Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed?

Date produced: 1967

Filmmaker(s):

Josef Reiter

Description:

"Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed Now, you see, there was this turtle, and he wanted to go home with me and spend the night. Well, that was all right with me, so I took this turtle home and he even slept right in my bed. You don't believe my story? Well, neither does my wife! But it is all told in this film, right down to the bare facts in the end!" PSA Journal, Aug. 1967, 37.


Why Whales?

Date produced: 1992

Filmmaker(s):

Robbins Barstow

Description:

"In October 1992, Connecticut Folksinger Donald Sineti visited Heidelberg, Germany, with global whale advocate Dr. Robbins Barstow, to sing for whales in a German-American cultural exchange program. Enjoy song concerts in castles, campus, city streets, and countryside." Archive.org


Wilderness Work at Cold Fish Lake

Date produced:

Filmmaker(s):

Tommy Walker

Description:

"A hunting trip on the Spatsizi Plateau, led by guide-outfitter Tommy Walker of Cold Fish Lake Camp" British Columbia Archives.
This film was produced at some time during the 1950s or 1960s.


Wildflowers

Date produced: 1940

Filmmaker(s):

Robert P. Kehoe

Description:

"Robert P. Kehoe, who won Honorable Mention last year with Chromatic Rhapsody, has "done it again" — only more so. In Wildflowers, with his own inimitable magic, he has gathered into light and color all the lazy loveliness of high summer. Here, as if he talked their secret language, bees drone and butterflies dance before his lens. Daisies and buttercups, the wild geranium and "butter and eggs" — a dozen flowers you do know and a score you have forgotten — nod in the warm sun with simple and unassuming beauty. Often, six blades of grass and a single bloom will comprise a moment of ineffable gaiety and song. The rough wood of a slanting black post gives accent to a field of daisies, or the delicate tracery of a "four o'clock" is a breath taking frame for a summer sunset. In Wildflowers, Mr. Kehoe has written once again a lyric testament to nature's incomparable loveliness." Movie Makers, Dec. 1940, 600.


Windbeam Beavers

Date produced: 1935

Filmmaker(s):

Niels-Eske Brock

Clara Brock


Witch Cat, The

Date produced: 1949

Filmmaker(s):

William A. Thomas

Description:

"A witch who tires of her venomous role decides to transmit her characteristics to the soul of a cat. In this utterly charming film, William A. Thomas shows that he understands this soul perfectly — in both its winsome and its wilder aspects. With inexhaustible patience, he has recorded all the mischievous doings of a lively kitten that finally sees the light of love and casts off the witch's spell — i.e., the cat has kittens. Mr. Thomas's staging of the witch scenes — a role played with relish by Olive Thomas — is eerie and effective, while his sequences on the satanic feline are done with amused affection. The Witch Cat will appall those who "can't bear the beasts," delight those who adore them." Movie Makers, Dec. 1949, 455.


With the Old Berkeley Hunt

Date produced: 1934

Filmmaker(s):

Eunice Alliott

Eustace Alliott

Description:

"Two reels of film recording the activities of the Old Berkeley Hunt in the cubbing and hunting seasons." (EAFA Database)


Work of Nature–in Florida

Date produced: 1964

Filmmaker(s):

J. Ira Laird

Description:

"Work of Nature–in Florida takes us to this tropical state for a glimpse of many forms of wild life including the ever present alligator and the night prowling raccoon, but mostly this is a film about bird life. We see good glimpses of the snowy egret, the wood duck, night heron, hawk, wood stork, cormorant, little blue heron, grackle, macaw, cockatoo, peacocks and many others. A good narration, well delivered and full of factual information, keeps this film moving. It was winner of the MPD Nature Film Award" PSA Journal, Sept. 1964, 50.


Young Fella

Date produced: 1948

Filmmaker(s):

Walter Bergmann

Description:

"Young Fella is a teaching film; it is also a family film. Again Walter Bergmann presents his charming household and shows the devotion of its members for pets. This time it is a young cocker spaniel that is the star. Subtitles on the proper care of dogs point up the scenes which demonstrate the advice given, as to feeding, bathing, playing and proper use of a run. Young Fella is an appealing pup and a willing actor, but the Bergmann cats steal some of the scenes in typical fashion." Movie Makers, Dec. 1948, 496.


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