How the Kiwi lost his wings

Duration: 12

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1980

Creator: Churchill Films

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Tells the New Zealand folktale of how the lovely kiwi agrees to give up his wings and lovely colors in order to save the forest. Ever since, the kiwi has lived on the ground where it protects the forest., Offers an interpretation of a folk tale from New Zealand, explaining why the kiwi bird can't fly.

Complete Record: Tells the New Zealand folktale of how the lovely kiwi agrees to give up his wings and lovely colors in order to save the forest. Ever since, the kiwi has lived on the ground where it protects the forest., In this animated version of a New Zealand folktale, Tane, god of the forest, calls the birds together to ask which of them would forsake life in the treetops to live on the forest floor, eat the insects and thus preserve the environment from destruction. All refuse and are punished except the kiwi which sacrifices its plummage for a life in the gloom cleaning the forest floor. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.