Living sea 16 (1957-08-15) : bird island

A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan introduced the birds living on the sea and explained their ways of making a livings from the sea. Basically there are two groups of birds: long wing flying birds and heavy body short wing birds, such as skimmer, puffin and penguin. He also explored a gulf island and showed the birds living there, including cormorant and pigeon guillemot.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Contributor

• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010
• Bray, Ken

Subject

• Sea birds
• Birds
• Sea birds--Food
• Islands
• Sea birds--Ecology
• Cormorants
• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Publisher

• CBC Vancouver

Language

• eng

Identifier

• CBUT-9453-4

Date created

• August 15, 1957

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 film reel (00:26:55) : black and white ; 16 mm

Alternative title

• Living sea show 16

Geographic Coverage

• British Columbia--Gulf Islands

Coordinates

• 48.93502, -123.58864

Physical Repository

• Physical item housed at CBC Vancouver.

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• television programs
• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• documentary film

Technical note

• mp4. Digitization of the films was contracted by the CBC. Metadata by M. He. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/vekm-c522