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Title: PUFFINS COME HOME

Reference number: 2409

Date: 1969*

Director: d. Sarah Quests

Production company: RSPB Film Unit

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 24.08 mins

Description: A study of the puffin colony on Skokholm Island, south west Wales, taken over a four month period, from nesting in the early Spring to the time when the young puffins are ready to leave the island.

Credits: with assistance of the Field Studies Council
w. and ph. Robina Gyle-Thompson
nar. Peter Scott
ed. Anthony Clay
sd. Gateway Film Productions Limited

Shotlist: Credits (.43); Gvs Skokholm Island, south west Wales, before the annual spring arrival of puffins (3.21); Aerial views of puffins on the sea before taking flight to the island's cliffs (5.55); Close-ups puffins on dry land (8.58); Close ups puffins' underground nests and gvs island in spring (10.16); Gvs puffins flying from cliffs in the evening (11.09); Close-ups puffins bringing fish to feed their newly hatched young (12.15); Close-up newly hatched young puffin in underground nest (12.37); Gvs herring gulls and greater black back gulls with shots of chicks in nests (13.27); Aerial views of grey seals (14.23); Slow motion shots of puffins landing and taking off (15.32); Close-ups of year old non breeding puffins (16.33); Close-up of puffin being ringed (17.09); Map showing breeding grounds of puffins worldwide (17.42); Gvs puffins joy flighting (19.26); Gvs puffins beginning to leave the island after their four month stay (20.56); Close-up puffin chicks ¬in nest a week before they are ready to leave it (21.42); Aerial view of guillemots with chicks (21.55); Gvs young puffins leaving the nest (23.31); ecs (24.08)