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* "Building and renting bird houses encourages children in the study of civics."
* "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.
* "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 ==
== Notes ==

Revision as of 23:22, 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
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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.
  • 00:09:48 ""young woodpeckers forming a society"

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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