The Adventures of a Friendly Duckling
The story told by Johnny Morris.
Filmed and directed by Bertil Danielsson for the Swedish Television Service
Bertil Danielsson is a Swede who spends the summer on one of the 60,000 islands in the Stockholm archipelago. In this film he shows how he found and reared a young tufted duck which had become separated from its family there one spring. Tufty Is fed on ants' eggs, mussels, and other delicacies, and becomes great friends with the Danielsson family and their dog.
This film was a prizewinner at the Radio and Television Festival in Taormina, Italy, this year.