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ABC Afterschool Specials: The Last of the Curlews (1972)
"Now there is one... soon there will be none."
Those words, from the narrator, suddenly came back to me yesterday after 35 years for some reason... tonight thanks to the wonders of the internet I discovered that it was "The Last of the Curlews" that I'm remembering. I recall the father and son going hunting... I remember watching it with my dad when I was 7 years old, and near the end asking my dad if the male curlews have that spot on their chest... and even then knowing that the spot was blood, where the poor bird had been shot, and just not wanting to think that was what really had happened because it was just too horrifying. Maybe back then the so-called "liberal media" really WAS liberal, with ABC showing a movie like this... maybe this film is one reason that all these decades later I'm still a card-carrying tree-hugging bird-watching vegetarian greenie... anyway I'm still disturbed by the few memories I have of it, nearly four decades later, so I guess it made quite an impression. I only wish it could have made an impression on more people... maybe fewer species would be extinct now.
The White Seal (1975)
"It's the ghost of all the seals we've killed!"
For some reason that quote popped into my head last night... I remembered it being from an animated film I'd seen when I was a child in the mid 70s, where a white seal thwarted some seal hunters... thanks to the internet, I am reasonably sure this is the film I saw. Can anyone verify this? I probably remember it because at that time I was collecting names and donations to stop the Canadian seal hunt (even though I lived in Florida)... obviously even at the age of ten, the film made quite an impression, if quotes are still coming back to me 30+ years later. (And obviously I remember when the so-called "liberal media" really WAS liberal, if they were showing things like this!)