The Nightingale

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Oliver G. Pike directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in No Language.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Tight 9-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
• 294 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
• 3Part of the "Secrets of Nature" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
• 4Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.

The technical file

Runtime

9 min · 0h 9m

Status

Released

Original language

EN

Part of

Secrets of Nature

A series of short educational nature documentaries that were produced from 1919 to 1933 by British Instructional Films.

• 
  The Cuckoo's Secret

  1922
• 
  The White Owl

  1922
• 
  The Battle of the Ants

  1922
• 
  Skilled Insect Artisans

  1922
• 
  Fathoms Deep Beneath the Sea

  1922
• 
  Winter

  1923
• 
  Busy Bees

  1926
• 
  The Plants of the Pantry

  1927
• 
  Floral Co-operative Societies

  1927
• 
  Scarlet Runner & Co

  1929
• 
  Plants of the Underworld

  1930
• 
  Peas and Cues

  1930
• 
  The Strangler

  1930
• 
  The Aphis

  1930
• 
  Magic Myxies

  1931
• 
  The World in a Wine-Glass

  1931
• 
  Dream Flowers

  1931
• 
  The Bittern

  1931
• 
  The Nightingale

  1932 · this one
• 
  Romance in a Pond

  1932
• 
  Brewster's Magic

  1933
• 
  Gathering Moss

  1933

Also by

Oliver G. Pike

• 
  Wild Birds in Their Haunts

  1909 · ★ 10.0
• 
  La Fauvette et le coucou

  1912
• 
  The White Owl

  1922

Production companies

Who made it

• BI

  BIF

  GB

Key crew

• CinematographyOliver G. Pike

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• nature documentary
• bird
• documentary short
• nightingale

Release history · US

When it landed

• Theatrical1932-03-18