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Honey Bees and Pollination
195730 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Larry GosnellJ.V. Durden
Production: Larry GosnellJ.V. DurdenDavid Bairstow
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada for the Canadian Department of Agriculture.
A colour film showing the relationship between the activity of bees and the fertility of field and orchard crops. Much of the film is in close-up so that the process of cross-pollination of flowers by bees can be clearly observed. The life of the hive is similarly illustrated, including the peculiar dance by which a successful bee tells the others where its source of honey is located. The film warns that indiscriminate use of chemical sprays may destroy bees, with consequent loss of fertility in crops.
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Subject categories
- Agriculture > Crops - Cultivation and Harvesting
- Plants > Flowers
- Animals > Insects
Credits
- director
- Larry Gosnell
- J.V. Durden
- photography
- Larry Gosnell
- J.V. Durden
- producer
- Larry Gosnell
- J.V. Durden
- David Bairstow
- sound
- George Croll
- editing
- J.V. Durden
- sound editing
- Bernard Bordeleau
- narrator
- Percy Rodriguez
- music
- Eldon Rathburn