Image from Some Birds And Beasts via EAFA
United Kingdom
English
00:11:09
275 ft
16mm
B&W
Silent
A compilation film comprised of, "eight short films featuring native British wildlife, farm animals, or country scenes, including foxhounds at their kennels and a family of travellers cooking a meal by a country road. The final film features a model of an English village with model railway and country scenes in miniature" (EAFA).
Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive
"Film (1) of swan with three cygnets on water; swan with two cygnets on its back disturbs the water beneath; swan and cygnets move on the water’s surface as a group; leave water for land. Film (2) of bat in presumably the Alliott home. Bat handled presumably by Eunice Alliott, who places it on a cushion; the bat moves around the cushion; when the bat is held by one leg, it extends its wings; wing extended by Eunice for camera. Film (3) of fox laying, sitting, moving in a field close to rabbits; the fox and a rabbit watch each other’s movements. Film (4) of lambs in field; the film (5) features Eunice Alliott with a pet dog (a chow). Lambs with their mothers, feed, or lie on ground. Lambs and sheep follow unidentified farm worker carrying a sack of feed into field; lambs run around as a group; sheep and lambs eat feed when placed on ground. Deer in Cowdray Park; Eunice Alliott feeds one deer from her car. Foxhounds released from their kennels for exercise by two [unidentified] men; the hounds are encouraged to exercise by the two men who run with the dogs and offer some edible rewards to them. Film (6) of a family of travellers (a man, a woman and a young child) by a country road, clear shot of a small wagon and laundry airing in a hedge; the man leads a pony towards the wagon; the woman cooks over an open fire; the man and child sit close by and watch; the woman removes a pan from over the firs and pours a drink from a kettle into three bowls; the woman adds sugar (presumably) to one of the bowls and offers it to the young child. Film (7) of a miniature model of a village, featuring a model railway with model passenger and goods trains, filmed against a background of a model fox hunt; a child sits on a model bridge above the railway line at the model rail station and watches as a train passes; Eunice walks over model bridges and inspects the scenes" (EAFA Database).
Amateur Cinema