London Visitors (1936)

The film tkes 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.

Released Jan. 1, 1936 90 min None+

Genres: Documentary, Short

Keywords: mdblist.belongs-to-collection, mdblist.collection-follow-up, mdblist.imdb-short, imdb.year-1936, imdb.1930s, imdb.20th-century

Production Companies: Gaumont-British Instructional

Country: United Kingdom
Languages: English