London Visitors

Name: London Visitors
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1936-01-01
Duration: 10 min
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Year: 1936

Runtime: 10 min

Type: Movie

Genre: Documentary

Overview

The film takes us to the North of England to follow the migration of the black-headed gull down to London. There, the narrator asks viewers to "listen to their gossip", before demonstrating the bird’s flight in slow motion. We see a polecat feasting on gull eggs, and then a man collecting the eggs for human consumption, with the film telling us that they are considered a “delicacy” in London. Indeed, according to the British Trust for Ornithology, around 300,000 gull’s eggs were sold every year in Leadenhall Market in London during the 1930s, when London Visitors was made.