Song Birds as Neighbors
Song Birds as Neighbors is a short film from 1920 released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.
| Song Birds as Neighbors | |
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| Produced by | Bray Studios, Inc. |
Production companies | Bray Studios, Inc. |
| Distributed by | Bray Studios, Inc. |
Release date | 1920 |
| Language | English |
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Synopsis
Photographed by William L. and Irene Finley of the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals. Titled by Marguerite Gove.
More Details
Song Birds as Neighbors AKA Our Bird Citizens or Song Birds as Citizens
- 00:00:24 "Crops, amounting to eight hundred millions of dollars, are destroyed annually by insect pests..."
- Great shot of movie cameraman in woods shooting birds at close range.
- Describes insect pests. Birds are "nature's check against these hardened criminals."
- Children building bird houses under direction of Audubon societies.
- "Scenes-Bird Bungalow-nuthatch oomes in f1om ioof o Roof of house removed-five young nuthatches showing. Roof replaoed~ Old birds bring in worms. Young nuthatches in hand."
- "Building and renting bird houses encourages children in the study of civics."
- "A delegation from the schools of Portland, Oregon, organizing a colonization scheme for their home woods." Children seen in front of Multnomah Falls.
- 00:09:48 ""young woodpeckers forming a society"
Notes
This film may share footage with films by Finley called "A House For A Song" or alternatively "Houses for songs: Home owners, attention!" or "Renting Houses for Songs"
Our Bird Citizens
Our Bird Citizens (1) Close range pictures of native birds of North America, showing their value in elimination of insects. (#A30)
OUR BIRD CITIZENS 729 Seventh Avenue New York Bray Pictures Corporation nd l reel 16 mm Sound Rental or purchase No teacher's guide Content The theme of the film is that birds are useful interesting and beautiful and should be protected The picture begins with woods a mountain scene and music with suggestions of bird trills and calls It shows a camera carried to suitable location and set up for taking pictures Grasshoppers and other insects appear and the commentator remarks that if all the caterpillars and other pests were allowed to live the entire world soon would be covered with insects as high as the highest mountains Birds feed on insects Thus they save crops and protect man from starvation An effective picture of several chickadees sitting in a row on a log is followed by a close up of a mother chickadee feeding her young Children can protect and save birds Children are shown in a shop building bird houses This scene is followed by a display of completed houses Then a father and son are shown putting up a bird house in a tree in front of water falls The film flashes to nuthatches Their characteristic movement combines a hop and a crawl The roof of a bird house is raised revealing baby birds in a corner Other interesting scenes of different birds in different settings follow including humming birds feeding their young woodpeckers pulling worms from holes in trees while the commentator explains their activities Educational objectives 1 Understandings a Birds are useful because they eat insects which would be harmful to man if left to feed upon animal and plant life 1 Birds are interesting because of their intriguing habits and beauty c Birds can be protected and children can help protect them 2 Attitudes a Appreciation of birds interesting ways of living b desire to protect birds 3 Persistent interests a Tendency to read about birds b interest in increasing number and variety of birds in home community in keeping informed about laws to protect birds and in protecting birds by building bird houses and other useful aids Adaptation Grades 5 and above in city or country Treatment of material Information adequate but somewhat loosely organized general effect interesting photography old Scenes of the humming bird are useful because the humming bird remains on the screen long enough to give an idea of its humming sweeping and balancing movements about the flowers in scenes which rarely can be observed so well in life
Song Birds as Citizens
Bulletin of the Extension Division, Indiana University, Volumes 5-7; Volumes 9-12 published in 1920?
Education Film Magazine Vol 5 No 1 - January 1921 https://books.google.com/books?id=nxLLQfQAz0sC&lpg=RA5-PA21&ots=cepa3BICt0&dq=%22song%20birds%20as%20citizens%22%20film&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=%22song%20birds%20as%20citizens%22&f=false
Song Birds as Citizens (1) Various kinds of birds with suggestions
for their preservation. (029, 0A3O) Small Birds
N 23 Song Birds as Citizens Beautiful pictures of the chickadee woodpecker and nuthatch at close range with suggestions for their preservation and encouragement in the neighborhood The film includes the making and erecting of bird houses and closes with a lively sparring match between two woodpeckers 1 reel
Newspaper article 27 February 1925 https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=DIN19250227.1.1&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------- e foremost living authorities on the bird life of the world. Then there will be one reel on “Song Birds As Citizens,” showing our own native song birds and making suggestions for their preservation and encouragement in our community. In addition to the special music and unusually interesting and beautiful
Educational Film Magazine: The International Authority of the Non-theatrical Motion Picture Field, Volumes 5-6
its beauty are some of the scenes of microscope magic revealed by the young scientist Arthur Carpenter No 480 The entire 800 feet of this Pictographı is devoted to a study of song birds as citizens which shows how valiantly the little creatures win their right to protection and life by destroying the insects that menace vegetation These clelightful scenes of bird life were filmed in the deep woods of Oregon by those devoted bird lovers William L and Irene Finley
See Also
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHFox09MvkU
- http://ephemeralfilm.info/images/1/12/Songbirdsasneighbors.gif
- https://vimeo.com/396282722
- Bray Productions