Command Performance (1946)

Titles read: “COMMAND PERFORMANCE“. Location of events unknown - Australia? Various shots of cockatoos doing tricks on a stage before a small audience of children. The birds ride round on a merry-go-round, walk up and down ladders, push a pram and play dead. Australian animal and bird trainer Peter Miller instructs and assists the birds. One cockatoo goes into a tiny pub and comes out with a little bottle of beer in his mouth. Several shots of a bird doing backwards flips. Another leaps over a ring as Peter turns it over and over. Last shots show a cockatoo flipping over a line and finally just hanging there. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont