Tawny Pipit (film)
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Tawny Pipit is a British comedy film produced by Prestige Productions in 1944. It tells of how the residents of a small English village collaborate when the nest of a pair of rare tawny pipits is discovered there.
Tawny Pipit | |
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Produced by | Bernard Miles William Sistrom |
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Cinematography | Eric Cross Ray Sturgess |
Edited by | Douglas Myers |
Music by | Noel Mewton-Wood |
Production company | Two Cities Films (as a Prestige Production) |
Distributed by | General Film Distributors |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
It is one of the first films to have a nature conservation theme: with one scene featuring a girl standing in front of a line of Covenanter tanks to prevent military training from disturbing the birds. Balanced against the conservation themes it also includes now-illegal practices, such as collecting rare bird eggs.
A secondary theme is criticism of government interference with farming practices, such as enforced ploughing, in areas where the farmers themselves generally know best.