Educational film catalog (1936)

598.2 EDUCATIONAL FILM CATALOG Birds of the seacoast. ISmin 16-si-$24 1931 Eastman 598.2 Long wings and webbed feet of water birds are shown as well as their food pouches and bills which are especially adapted to their habits in procuring food. Shows young gulls hatching out, terns' eggs, black skimmers' nests and digging of hiding holes for the young. Colonies of murres, nesting grounds of cormorants and the brown pelican's bill pouch are also shown Jh-sh Guide Birds rare and fantastic. (Canadian sea fowl ser.) lOmin 16-si-$10.32 35-si-nf- apply Canadian gov't. 598.2 Titles in French and English "Life and habits of the red-throated loon, the double-crested cornaorant, and the common cormorant." Indiana Fleet wings. (Canadian sea fowl ser.) lOmin 16-si-$10.14 35-si-nf-apply Cana- dian gov't. 598.2 Titles in French and English "Dealing with the life and habits of the Herring Gull, the Ring-billed Gull and the Caspian Tern." Producer Game birds. ISmin 16-si-$24 1931 East- man 598.2 "Waterfowl, mallard ducks, feeding, nesting habits, pin-tails 'dabbling,' female teal and nest, wild geese, swimming and nesting, goose feathering its nest, gos- lings, coots (mud hens), lobes on coots' feet. Grouse, 'fool hens' (Franklin grouse), ruffed grouse. Quail, a California quail taking dust bath, bob white and nest, young birds. Pheasants, the silver pheasant, ring-neck pheasant, wild tur- keys." Ohio el-jh-sh-c Guide Hummingbirds. 5min 16-si-$6.91 35-si-f-nf- apply Bray 598.2 By William L. and Irene Finley "The mother bird and her tiny eggs in the nest; fledglings not much larger than bumble bees, etc." Producer In birdland. (Nature study ser.) 12min 16-si-$24 35-si-nf-$80 prior 1927 DeVry 598.2 By G. Clyde Fisher of the American mu- seum of natural history A collection of small native birds. Rep- resented are the finches, sparrows, chicka- dees, nuthatches, linnets, wrens, kingfish- ers, humming birds and flickers. Simple bird house construction is also shown el-Jh Guide Mallard duck in Oregon. 5min 16-si-$5.38 35-si-f-nf-apply Bray 598.2 By William L. Finley "How the wild mallard duck builds its nest and rears its family." Producer National bird refuges. IR 16-si-loan 35- si-nf-loan 1922 U.S. agric. 598.2 A Bureau of biological survey film "A trip on a government patrol boat to federal bird refuges on islands in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana; brown pelicans, royal terns, laughing gulls, black skimmers, and other birds." In- diana el-jh-sh Nature's gliders. ISmin 16-si-$20.83 35-si- f-nf-apply Bray 598.2 "Analysis of the flight of birds by slow motion; seabirds taking off from the cliff; gliding; use of air currents by birds to propel themselves; gulls, gannets, wild swans, cranes and herons in full flight. Why domesticated birds lose their power of flight." Producer Home from the South. (Secrets of life ser.) 9min 16-sd-apply 35-sd-f-apply Gaumont British 598.2 "One watches at close range the chiff- chaff . . . the two kinds of whitethroat garden warbler, reed warbler, sedge war- bler, willow warbler, wood warbler and their exquisitely made nests. One is re- minded of the passing of the year by beautiful studies of many trees in blossom and caterpillars crawling along willow twigs. A young cuckoo ousting its foster mother's own small egg from the nest and later, when almost full grown, dependent for nourishment on the little warbler, af- fords a grotesque surprise for a few mo- ments. . . A very enjoyable portrayal of bird life. . . The re-introduction of the eight birds in stills towards the end is particularly apt. [Useful inj nature study, biology, zoology, gardening and agriculture [Classes]" British film inst. Jh-sh-Guide Home of the birds. (Canadian sea fowl ser.) 8min 16-si-$11.10 35-si-nf-apply Canadian gov't. 598.2 Bilingual titles "Very similar to 'Birds of Bonaventure," [listed above] many of the scenes being the same. "The home and breeding place of many of the Canadian sea-fowl." Colo- rado Nimrods in duckland. (Seeing Canada ser.) 8min 16-si-$10.68 35-si-nf-apply Canadian gov't. 598.2 "Provides a record of a day's duck shooting on the upper St. Lawrence." In- diana jh Nomads of the ocean. (Canadian sea fowl ser.) 5min 16-si-$8.25 35-si-nf-apply Canadian gov't. 598.2 Bilingual titles "A film showing Canadian sea fowl and dealing with the life and habits of the puffin, common murre, ringed murre, and razor-billed auk, and how they are protected under the Migratory Birds Con- vention Act." Indiana Jh Nomads of the sea. (Seeing Canada ser.) 5min 16-si-$8.25 35-si-nf-apply Cana- dian gov't. 598.2 "Taken along the northern shores of the Gulf of St. Lawrence—the home of countless thousands of little known Can- adian sea-fowl. . . Contains many . . . views of Gulls, Murres, Eider Ducks, Cor- morants, and other rare birds nesting in their native haunts." Producer [Useful in] biology and nature study [Classes]" Am. museum of nat. hist. el-Jh-sh si • silent; sd - sound; f - inflammable; nf - safety; el - elementary; Jh - Junior high; sh - senior hiBh; c • college 30