GREY SEALS: At Their Breeding Ground in the Farne Islands

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Title: GREY SEALS: At Their Breeding Ground in the Farne Islands

Reference number: 3865

Date: 1956

Sponsor: Educational Films of Scotland

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 10.16 mins

Description: A study of Atlantic - or grey - seal colony at breeding ground on Farne Islands, off coast of Northumberland.

Prize-winner at 1956 Scottish Amateur Film Festival. Winner of the Isabel Elder Cup - for an Educational film. Glasgow Scientific Film Society Prize - £2-2/-

See also National Library of Scotland Paper Archive Reference: 2/3/43

Credits: sc. ph. and nar. E.G. Cairns (Mrs)

Shotlist: Opening credits (0.14) many shots of grey seals on rocky Farne Island taken from both land and boat (10.16)