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Den Brown
Master Film Handler

Posts: 271
From: London, UK
Registered: Apr 2007

posted August 03, 2008 06:30 AM

I am after a copy of this short about birds.

Thanks.

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Douglas Meltzer
Moderator

Posts: 4554
From: New York, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted August 03, 2008 04:57 PM

I remember seeing this as a kid and feeling sorry for all the birds that fell off the branch. [Frown]

Doug

[ August 03, 2008, 07:29 PM: Message edited by: Douglas Meltzer ]

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I think there's room for just one more film.....

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted August 04, 2008 05:15 PM

Wow!, He's serious!

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/1269043/synopsis.html

You don't see a title like that on a "G" rated film very often!

I snagged a print of "The Secret Life of the Cuckoo" a few years back. A pretty good film, but what with all the baby birds being pushed out of nests it's not a happy story...

[ August 04, 2008, 09:40 PM: Message edited by: Steve Klare ]

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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...

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Den Brown
Master Film Handler

Posts: 271
From: London, UK
Registered: Apr 2007

posted August 05, 2008 03:41 AM

I have 'The Secret Life Of The Cuckoo', a fine film.

Are there any stores in the U.S.A. which sell old educational prints that may have this 'Family Of Great Tits' film and would be worth contacting? Cheers.

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted August 05, 2008 04:01 PM

Hi Den,

There may be some somewhere, but generally speaking you say "movie" in the US these days and immediately the silver disk comes out. It's not simply that people have rejected film; they don’t seem to know it ever existed! I recently heard about "newly found amateur video from the JFK assassination".

-Months later the phrase still makes me cringe!

-besides, I can imagine the looks you'd get in you asked for "A Family of Great Tits" at the movie store: the full range from disgusted grimace to knowing leer!

I've always been intrigued by the Derann title "Round Robin". Do you know this film?

PS: Our own Dan Lail sells a lot of 16mm educational films on-line:

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQfgtpZ1QQfrppZ25QQsassZdanajerrye

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