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A Few Million Birds

No copy you can watch online. No print is known to survive. What follows is what does: the release, the cast, the story, and what the trade press said at the time.

What the papers said

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On the same reel as [The Commuter’s Cat]. Interesting views of pigeon and ostrich farms, in which the title does not seem to be exaggerated.

The Moving Picture World · 25 January 1913

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Filmed in
California ostrich farm and pigeon farm

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1913 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “A Few Million Birds”. thanhouser.org/films/a-few-million-birds/

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