BIRDS OF THE ORKNEY ISLANDS
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Title: BIRDS OF THE ORKNEY ISLANDS
Reference number: 2407
Date: 1952*
Director: d. Gwen Davies
Production company: Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
Sound: silent
Original format: 16mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 13.01 mins
Description: Close up shots of the different varieties of birds inhabiting the Orkney islands.
Credits:
p. and ed. George R Edwards
ph. C.W. Holt, George Arthur, Edward Balfour
Shotlist: Credits (0.21) One hundred and fifty miles to the north of Aberdeen lies Kirkwall county town of the Orkneys. gvs Kirkwall harbour (1.05) gvs Kirkwall town centre (1.22) Uninhabited islands, grassy holms and rocky skerries form the home of Orkney's sea bird population. c/u and gvs same (5.30) On the large islands an equally interesting variety of birds inhabit high moorland tarns and the vicinity of treacherous peat bogs. c/u and gvs same - ecs (13.01)