Ornithological Narcolepsy

Back when I joined the Church, in 1991—and for several years after—every session of LDS General Conference was preceded by a countdown timer superimposed over videos of happy people from around the world, presumably to evoke the worldwide reach of the Church of Jesus Christ.

As the timer counted down and the scenes continued in predictable order, there was a scene of a small, arched foot bridge over a peaceful stream, which gave way to an old, Asian-looking man and an equally Asian-looking girl of about five years of age. The old man was holding out his ostensible granddaughter’s hand as a nearby bird—a hummingbird, if I remember correctly—came ever closer to lighting upon it. Then, right at the “one minute left” mark, the scene would fade as their feathered friend suddenly, for no apparent reason, stopped flapping its wings and plummeted toward and off the bottom of the screen.

Does anyone out there know where I can find the footage of this apparently narcoleptic hummingbird? It cracked me up, every time. Every General Conference, every session, as I sat in the Sacrament Hall, I would quietly and ever so reverently encourage all around me to watch for it. I’d love to see it again.