Bird Virtuosos
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 5
- Summary
- NoS Summary - Trained birds perform various tricks.
British Pathe synopsis: "This kindly training of birds is a difficult job - some birds are little disposed to obedience and a lot of patience is required..." Stage set. Man in a suit stands behind a table which holds various props. C/U of bird (budgerigar) climbing up and down a little set of steps. Trainer clicks his fingers and the bird climbs up again. Another bird - a small parrot - climbs on a frame upside down. "The "Ring" jump is a good test." Birds jump through little rings. "And the horizontal bar..." Bird does somersaults over a bar. Trainer uses a little stick to make the animals perform their stunts. "The seesaw gives the bird an opportunity to show its intelligence and sense of balance..." Two birds play on a see saw. "And so to bed..." L/S of the set, The birds are herded up and into a little model house. The trainer shuts them all in after the last one has flown in through the top window. - Keywords
- Stunts; Birds
- Written sources
- Pathe Inventory File Tin No.211
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No. EP211 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue
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How to cite this record
'Bird Virtuosos', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 518, 7 May 1931. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/332720 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)