Question: Which documentary film was released first, "Seal Island" or "Paper Clips" (about the Paper Clips Project)?
Context: Project Puffin is an effort initiated by Dr. Stephen W. Kress of the National Audubon Society to learn how to restore puffins to historic nesting islands in the Gulf of Maine.  It was started in 1973 when puffins were nesting in only two locations in Maine — Matinicus Rock and Machias Seal Island.  The project began with an attempt to restore puffins to Eastern Egg Rock Island in Muscongus Bay, about 6 mi away from Pemaquid Point.  The restoration efforts are based on the fact that young puffins usually return to breed on the same island where they hatched. Seal Island is a small land mass located 5.7 km off the northern beaches of False Bay, near Cape Town, in South Africa.  The island is so named because of the great number of Cape fur seals that occupy it.  It is 5 acre in area and home to 64,000 cape fur seals.  It is home to seabirds too and it is likely that non-marine species (in no great number) fly there to breed as well (see external link to the Avian Demographic Unit at the University of Cape Town).  The island is an outcrop of the Cape granite and rises no more than about four to six metres above the high tide mark.  The island is long and narrow- 800 metres by 50 metres.  There is no vegetation or soil of any significance and no beach.  A radar mast was built on the island during World War II by a crew who lived in prefabricated huts for the duration of the construction but this tower gradually succumbed to corrosion and was blown over in a winter storm in 1970.  All that remains of it is rusty, twisted metal.  There are the ruins of a few huts and other structures from the sealing and guano-collection era (first half of the 20th century).  Some rock inscriptions made by sealers in the 1930s are still evident. Paper Clips is a 2004 documentary film written and produced by Joe Fab, and directed by Elliot Berlin and Joe Fab, about the Paper Clips Project, in which a middle school class tries to collect 6 million paper clips to represent the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis. Sandy the Seal is a 1965 British family film directed by Robert Lynn and starring Heinz Drache, Marianne Koch and Gert Van den Bergh.  Produced and co-written by Harry Alan Towers, the film was shot in South Africa in Technicolor and Techniscope II with sequences shot on Seal Island, South Africa.  The film was released in the UK by Tigon British Film Productions in 1969. Life in a Day is a crowdsourced drama/documentary film comprising an arranged series of video clips selected from 80,000 clips submitted to the YouTube video sharing website, the clips showing respective occurrences from around the world on a single day, 24 July 2010. Rock Hudson's Home Movies is a 1992 documentary by Mark Rappaport.  It shows clips from Rock Hudson's movies that could be interpreted as gay entendres.  Eric Farr speaks to the camera as if speaking Rock Hudson's words from a posthumous diary.  Film clips from more than 30 Hudson films illustrate ways in which his sexual orientation played out on screen.  First there are tenuous and unresolved relationships with women, then clips of Rock with men, cruising and circling.  Second, there is pedagogical eros: Hudson with older men.  Rock is seen with his male sidekicks, often Tony Randall.  Next, the film looks in depth at comedies of sexual embarrassment and innuendo: films in which Hudson sometimes plays two characters, "macho Rock and homo Rock."  Lastly, the film reflects on Hudson's death from AIDS. The Seal Island Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District located on the islands of St. George and St. Paul in the Pribilof Islands in the Bering Sea of Alaska.  These islands are home to northern fur seal herds which were actively hunted by indigenous populations and later by many nationalities.  These islands of the Pribilofs are also the southern end of the range of the polar bear, ("Ursus maritimus") The North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 signed by the United Kingdom, Japan, Russia and the United States limited hunting of the seals on these islands; this international treaty was one of the first conservation treaties, and set the stage for subsequent treaties. True-Life Adventures series is a collection of fourteen full length and short subject documentary films produced by Walt Disney Productions roughly between the years 1948 and 1960.  The series won eight Academy Awards for the studio including three Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature awards for "The Living Desert", "The Vanishing Prairie" and "White Wilderness", and five Best Two Reel Live Action Short awards for "Seal Island", "In Beaver Valley", "Nature's Half Acre", "Water Birds", and "Bear Country".  It inspired a daily panel comic strip that was distributed from 1955 to 1971 and drawn by George Wheeler.  Several of the films were adapted in comic book format as one shots in the Dell Comics Four Color series.  The films were among the earliest production experience for Roy E. Disney.  Also this film series was the launching pad for Disney's new distributor, Buena Vista International.  TV episodes are from Disney's anthology TV series. The Paper Clips Project, by middle school students from the small southeastern Tennessee town of Whitwell, created a monument for the Holocaust victims of Nazi Germany.  It started in 1998 as a simple 8th-grade project to study other cultures, and then evolved into one gaining worldwide attention.  At last count, over 30 million paper clips had been received. " Paper Clips", an award-winning documentary film about the project, was released in 2004 by Miramax Films. Seal Island is a 1948 American documentary film directed by James Algar.  Produced by Walt Disney, it was the first installment of the "True-Life Adventures" series of nature documentaries.  It won an Academy Award in 1949 for Best Short Subject (Two-Reel).
Answer: Seal Island