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The Home Wrecker = Secrets of Nature
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Item number (ISN):444290Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:BRITISH FILM INSTITUTEAccession:1967-0010Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Release date:1929Production company:British International FilmsProduction credit:producer, Edgar Chance; photography, E. Hawking; Oliver PikeDescription:Popular science. The hide is prepared; an est of titlarks. A cuckoo looks for a nest to lay her eggs; her appearance distresses the titlarks. The cuckoo swoops down, takes one of the titlark's eggs in her beak, sits on the next for a few moments to lay her egg and flies off with the stolen egg; repeat in slow motion. The nest is searched by the photographer and the eggs are displayed. The eggs are hatched and the titlarks adopt the interloper as their own. The young cuckoo ejects unhatched eggs from the nest, and attemps to eject young titlakrs but is prevented by the return of the mother; it finally succeeds. The mother feeds and tends the young cuckoo to the detriment of her own babies. The young cuckoo shows aggressive tendencies; it is fed by titlarks in preparation for its flight to Africa; repeat in slow motion; finally it fends for itself and flies off.Language:EnglishDetailed holdings information: -
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