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1916Thanhouser Company330 feetEducational

Wild Birds at Home

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What the papers said

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“Interesting studies of the pelican, white ibis, gallinule, etc. and sea birds at Bird Key.”

The Bioscope · 4 May 1916

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Herbert K. Job

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More about this film

Filmed in
Bird Key, Florida (and possibly Louisiana)
Bowers’ notes
  1. This film was released in Great Britain by Thanhouser Films, Ltd. on May 29, 1916. The author located no record of its release in the United States. 2. See also these related films: The Spirit of Audubon (October 19, 1915), Ex-President Roosevelt’s Feathered Pets (indexed under June 12, 1916), and Herons and Egrets (indexed under June 19, 1916).

From Volume II: Filmography of Q. David Bowers’ Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, reproduced with permission and unchanged. Read the history of 1916 →

Cite as: Bowers, Q. David. Thanhouser Films: An Encyclopedia and History, “Wild Birds at Home”. thanhouser.org/films/wild-birds-at-home/

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