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DetailsOriginal Format: BetaSP Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 6 mins
Subject: COUNTRYSIDE / LANDSCAPES EDUCATION
Summary This film documents a Natural History trip undertaken by pupils of Bootham School, York, to the outskirts of the city where they bird watch and swim in the River Ouse.
Description
This film documents a Natural History trip undertaken by pupils of Bootham School, York, to the outskirts of the city where they bird watch and swim in the River Ouse.
The film opens with a male student looking through a set of binoculars with the reverse angle show groups of sea gulls circling a lake. The next shot shows a main road is visible in the background along with the York Minster. A group of students then sit in some rough glass staring through binoculars. There are then several...
This film documents a Natural History trip undertaken by pupils of Bootham School, York, to the outskirts of the city where they bird watch and swim in the River Ouse.
The film opens with a male student looking through a set of binoculars with the reverse angle show groups of sea gulls circling a lake. The next shot shows a main road is visible in the background along with the York Minster. A group of students then sit in some rough glass staring through binoculars. There are then several shots of the surrounding area, which is wide, open stretches of grassy fields - some of which contain daffodils.
Title - Summer.
A shot shows a tutor and a body wondering through the field, and they stop to inspect some flowers, which, among others, include buttercups and lavender. The tutor then hands the student a flower with purple bulbs and the boy places the flower in metal container he holds round his neck. A close up shows a bee polluting a flower, and this is followed by a beetle climbing on a yellow flower.
The next sequence features the students foraging for wildlife in muddy streams and puddles; they scoop the water with nets and trounce around in the mud. Two boys then stare into a jar filled with murky water hoping to spot any signs of life, before searching the net. A close up of a stream shows tad poles swimming against the current.
Cows graze in a lush field, before the boys get changed and take a dip in the Rive Ouse. The film concludes with more shots of the surrounding countryside with road and Minster firmly in view.