Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 7382 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| WHEN MARY MET TOMMY | 1999 | 1999-01-01 |
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Details
Original Format: MP4 Colour: Colour Sound: Sound Duration: 4 mins 13 secs Credits: A film by Michael Gough Genre: Actuality Subject: Countryside/Landscapes Environment/Nature |
| Summary This film follows a group of tourists, on a trip from Seahouses to the Farne Islands, who travel by boat and then enjoy being around a large number of sea birds on the islands. Mary is one of the tourists on the trip, and Tommy is the name given to one of the puffins. |
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Description
This film follows a group of tourists, on a trip from Seahouses to the Farne Islands, who travel by boat and then enjoy being around a large number of sea birds on the islands. Mary is one of the tourists on the trip, and Tommy is the name given to one of the puffins.
Title Card - 'When Mary Met Tommy'
A flying seagull is shown.
A large group of tourists are shown lining up and getting onto a boat at Seahouses. The boat crew prepare for the boat to set off.
The boat is shown...
This film follows a group of tourists, on a trip from Seahouses to the Farne Islands, who travel by boat and then enjoy being around a large number of sea birds on the islands. Mary is one of the tourists on the trip, and Tommy is the name given to one of the puffins.
Title Card - 'When Mary Met Tommy'
A flying seagull is shown.
A large group of tourists are shown lining up and getting onto a boat at Seahouses. The boat crew prepare for the boat to set off.
The boat is shown moving along the water as the tourists all admire the views. Several of them look through binoculars at different species of bird, which are flying close to the water.
The tourists continue to look over the edge of the boat at the views and the large amount of sea birds, such as puffins and razorbills.
General views of the Farne Islands and puffins on the rocks are shown from the boat.
Puffins, razorbills and kittiwakes are shown covering the majority of the surface of the island.
A lady looks at the island through her binoculars from the boat.
The tourists reach the island and the boat crew moor the boat.
The tourists walk up onto the island, putting up their hoods and gesturing away with their hands, as the birds are shown to become hostile and try to defend their nesting sites.
Adult birds are shown flying over to the baby birds in the nesting sites and sitting over them in a protective manner.
Some of the flowers on the island are shown.
Some of the group are shown walking around the island.
Groups of puffins are shown on the rocks.
Tommy the Puffin is singled out, stood on one of the rocks.
More groups of puffins are shown.
Kittiwakes and their babies are shown.
The tourists are shown leaving the island on the boat.
A seagull flies overhead.
A view from the back of the boat looking towards the islands is shown.
End title - 'The End, a Michael Gough production, 1999'
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