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Pelican Island

United States, 1930
film

Down south in Florida where Ponde De Leon ages ago sought the spring of eternal youth, there is a queer island inhabited by pelicans. Burlington studies the m..

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My island home

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The Boy and the pelican

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Beyond the dune

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Birth of a Florida key

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The Lonely island

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Flipper

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