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Subject: Re: "Tawny
Pipit"
Re Paul's note below:
That film seems to come on TV at least once a
year. It really is worth seeing at least once, and not just for the birds. It
isn't really a comedy, it is a film of war time light propaganda and a release
from the stress of war. However the way it shows small town British life and
especially the caricature of the British birdwatcher and egg collectors, the
pretty Russian woman sniper who was idolised by British country folk for how
many "Hitlerites" she had shot and all sorts of other things. That,
and the almost slapstick comedy is amusing in a way, to today's people. Or at
least it is to me, (actually more quaint than amusing). As far as the Tawny
Pipit featured in the film it concerned, the bird nesting seems to be genuine
though the filming of the bird wasn't too crash hot. One is left suspecting that
what is shown wouldn't really pass a rarities panel of today. Yet, if taken
lightly, it seems a plausible portrayal of a then vagrant European species
nesting in Britain. There is nothing about extinction in the film, it is just
about one pair of vagrant birds. What is quaint is how the locals interpret the
birds' arrival as being a sign of fleeing the war ravages of Europe. For what it
is worth, I don't know how accurate it is, I have never been outside Australia,
nor (fortunately) in war.
-----Original Message-----
From:
Paul Taylor <>
To:
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Date:
Monday, 18 September 2000 12:43
Subject: [BIRDING-AUS]
"Tawny Pipit"
While thumbing through the TV
guide looking for alternatives to
the Olympics, I spotted a Tawny Pipit
(ABC, 12:30am - 1:50am
Wednesday 20 September.) Apparently it's a
comedy: "In wartime
England, dedicated birdwatchers battle to
save a rare bird from
becoming extinct."
Sounds like a
lark.
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