Prison Bird Sanctuary (1967)
Portland, Dorset. Various shots show a young girl walking along a cliff side path to the Verne Prison; she hands a box containing a sea bird covered with oil to the warder at the door; he hands it to a prisoner through another door. The prisoners seen in this story wear black eye masks as For our film, the prisoners must be anonymous. The man takes the box to a building across the courtyard; C, U of a sign on the door reads The Verne Bird Sanctuary, Sponsored by the RSPCA. At a table inside, another man takes the bird from the box and cleans it s feathers, then dries the bird. We see several pictures of birds on the wall and several bird skulls are displayed on a table. In a large bird enclosure another man checks a seagull s injured wing and places it in a pond; he then feeds some guillemots. A rook (or crow ) is seen hopping about. Another prisoner flings a guillemot into the air so it flies away over the prison wall. The black eye masks worn by the prisoners give this film a somewhat b
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