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CLASS A — Popular Science and Natural History 33
COURTESY TITLE REEL NO.
CLASS FOUR
POPULAR SCIENCE AND NATURAL HISTORY
Courtesy of HOLLYWOOD CITIZEN 2000-4
FOUR SEASONS
A remarkable course in nature study, showing how a variety of Mother Earth's children behave at different seasons of the year.
SPRING is the season of re-awakening — of birth and of new life. Pusseywillows push forth their furry paws, frog's eggs appear in quiet pools, where they soon hatch into pollywogs, snakes wriggle forth from their winter's hiding places, the woodchuck emerges from his burrow, robins feed their young and tiny chickens break through their shells. Many cute and interesting closeups are shown of various animal families, including baby chipmunks, a bear and her cubs, a bat family and a deer with tiny fawns. An exceptional shot shows a deer shedding its majestic antlers, leaving only flat disks where the horns break off.
SUMMER! Now the antlers of the deer shown in the preceding reel begin to bud, growing with remarkable speed. Bees visit the flowers, gathering nectar and storing it in their marvelously constructed cells of wax. An interesting picture of a dish full of soap bubbles pressed downward with a pane of glass, shows the bubbles taking the form of hexagons, just as the cells of the beehive do. Various insects and animals are caught at their summer pastimes. Then there is a thunder storm, with the sky rent with rivers of dazzling lightning. A very unusual shot shows the top of the storm as it looks from a mountain summit above the clouds.
AUTUMN. The bumble bee and other insects are hurrying to gather enough food to last through the approaching winter. Beavers, too, are busy, cutting down trees a foot thick and stripping them of their branches. The beaver sequence in this film is considered one of the most unusual animal pictures ever taken. Caterpillars are shown curling up the leaves and spinning themselves into their snug sleeping bags, after first taking the precaution to anchor the leaf firmly to the branch with silk so it will not drop when the other leaves fall. Now the antlers of the deer are fully grown. The thick fuzz which covered them in summer has been scraped off, the remnants of it hanging in unkempt streamers from the horns. Birds begin to migrate, the porcupine grows a coat of fur under its quills and the brown hare dons its camouflage of white fur so that it can better hide in the snow banks.
WINTER. The first snowfall brings soft fluft'y crystals that are marvelously ornate and symetrical. Around the opening of the woodchuck's home there are no tracks. An inquisitive human drives a stake so he can locate the place later. Then, when the snow is deep he returns ,^ with pick and shovel to learn what has happened to Mr. Woodchuck. ■L There at the end of the burrow he finds him, curled up in a ball, sound ^■asleep. Even the loudest noises and the roughest jostling do not awaken