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== Notes ==
== Notes ==


This film seems to be similar to, or the same as, a film by Finley called "A House For A Song" or alternatively "Houses for songs: Home owners, attention!"
This film seems to be similar to, or the same as, a film by Finley called "A House For A Song" or alternatively "Houses for songs: Home owners, attention!" or "Renting Houses for Songs"


"An excellent educational film has been secured of school children making and putting up bird houses"
"An excellent educational film has been secured of school children making and putting up bird houses"

Revision as of 23:06, 18 May 2022

Song Birds as Neighbors is a short film from ca. 1920s released on 16mm. It is held in the Prelinger Archives collection.

See below for a synopsis.

Song Birds as Neighbors
Produced byBray Studios, Inc.
Production
companies
Bray Studios, Inc.
Distributed byBray Studios, Inc.
Release date
ca. 1920s
LanguageEnglish
Thumbnail
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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

  • 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.

Notes

This film seems to be similar to, or the same as, a film by Finley called "A House For A Song" or alternatively "Houses for songs: Home owners, attention!" or "Renting Houses for Songs"

"An excellent educational film has been secured of school children making and putting up bird houses"

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