Sunshine through lush foliage, rustling breezes, cicadas and crickets, hazy vistas, languid days... I love and search for these films.

Must have: a significant part of the film or at least a critical scene with the "dappled summer" criterion of sunshine amidst greenery.

Usually: filmed in natural daylight, outdoors in nature in the spring or summer, with a soundtrack with field recordings of insects and wind through leaves.

Excludes: urban, dry or treeless settings (no desert, scrubland, grassland, savanna, tundra..) and most beach movies with a few honourable exceptions. Also fiction preferred to documentaries, mainly, and colour to black & white almost always.

Not included: 3 Episodes of the A-Team A Best of Daffy Duck and Porky Pig Collection 3 Episodes of Father Ted Goughy's Gaffes Cricket's Greatest Ever Matches Hall's Pictorial Weekly 3 Episodes of Hancock's Half Hour A Few Episodes of Inspector Morse Several Kim Possible DVDs A Few Episodes of Lewis 2 Episodes Midsomer Murders First Season of Murder She Wrote Episodes of Pokemon Various Tom & Jerry Shorts  Two Vietnam War Documentaries Sans Souci

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