The Private Life of the Gannets

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  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 10 min
  • Premiere: 1934. April 4.
  • Director: Julian Huxley
  • Writer: Ronald Lockley
  • Starring: A.L. Alexander

A 1934 GB production that was picked up in 1937 by Educational for 20th Century Fox distribution about the gannet, a beautiful white and exceedingly graceful bird deemed the best fisherman in the world, that inhabits a small rocky island off the coast of Wales. The film won the 1938 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (One-Reel).

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A.L. Alexander

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Directing

Julian Huxley

Director

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Julian Huxley

Director

Writing