"Birds" - free and fancy
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 6
- Summary
- NoS synopsis: "Most women admire the feathered beauty of the Peacock, the ultimate in adorned splendour - " M/S of a peacock filmed in a clearing in a wood. "In his way, however, the common gull outshines his land rival in his graceful evolutions against a sea and sky background - (Brixham)" M/S of a harbour, small boats and birds splashing around in the water. L/S of the quayside. Large crowds watch as a man throws food out to the birds. "And no peacock approaches this in grace - via the slow-motion camera." Sailor sits on the quayside and the birds fly all around him - shot in slow motion.
- Keywords
- Birds
- Locations
- Devon; England; Brixham
- Footage sources
- Pathe
- Written sources
- British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP308
Pathe Eve 473-493 Boxfile Issue sheet
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- Production Co.
- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 128
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How to cite this record
'"Birds" - free and fancy', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 481, 21 Aug 1930. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332508 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)