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London Visitors (1936)
Directed by Mary Field
Documentary · 10m
The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to "listen to their gossip", before demonstrating the bird’s flight in slow motion. We see a polecat feasting on gull eggs, and then a man collecting the eggs for human consumption, with the film telling us that they are considered a “delicacy” in London. Indeed, according to the British Trust for Ornithology, around 300,000 gull’s eggs were sold every year in Leadenhall Market in London during the 1930s, when London Visitors was made.
Crew
- Director
- Mary Field
- Director of Photography
- Oliver G. Pike
- Editor
- J.V. Durden
Details
- Release date
- 1936-01-01
- Runtime
- 10m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Gaumont-British Instructional