NATURAL HISTORY

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 March 1939, Page 13

NATURAL HISTORY

AUSTRALIAN FILM RECORDS. SYDNEY, February IU. A grant exceeding £lOOO, which the Australian Museum. Sydney, received from the Carnegie Corporation <>f New York, for expenditure “on an educational purpose." is to be devoted to making natural history films lor exhibition in schools.

The first picture, “Life on a Tidal Flat,” taken at Gunnamatta Bay, near Sydney, has already been made by the museum staff with moving picture apparatus purchased with part of the Carnegie grant. The staff photographer, Mr. G. C. Glutton, was assisted by officers of the scientific staff, and an interesting record has been secured of the. teeming lite on a. tidal flat at low tide. The picture shows squids. octopuses. crabs, shrimps, and quaint fornm of sea life in close-ups and wriggling in shallows. The text, of the lecture to accompany the film for the use of teachers is being prepared. The museum director. Dr. Anderson, said that, there was a dearth of films dealing with Australian natural history. Further pictures planned would include the various stages in the lil-e of the butterfly, and the life, story of the cicada. A native cat in captivit v at the museum would also be filmed, and later there would be a production showing the habits of the marsupial mouse.