A Love Nest. This shows how a poor fish is often a very good husband!
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 6
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Underwater footage of a fish building a "love nest" for his fishy wife.
NoS synopsis: M/S of a small fish swimming in a tank. "Meet Pa Stickleback - just a good living fish." More fish swim around. "Pa is building a little home for the Mrs..." We see the fish digging down into the sand at the bottom of the tank. Various shots of the fish swimming around and picking up bits of foliage. "He may seem a bit jerky in his actions, but lots of unpleasant kinds of sudden death lurk beneath the ocean bed - " More shots of the fish darting around. "Here is love, many leagues under the sea." Closer shots of the fish. "Proud papa..." Fish swims around with lots of tiny babies swimming around him. - Keywords
- Animals
- Footage sources
- Pathe Review Issue No.15/1930
Pathe Exchange
- Written sources
- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.192
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP192
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
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- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 161
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How to cite this record
'A Love Nest. This shows how a poor fish is often a very good husband!', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 476, 17 Jul 1930. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332484 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)