Documentary Description
Bill Oddie highlights the passionate,
eccentric and pioneering individuals who have often risked life and
limb to break new boundaries in wildlife films. He charts the
extraordinary changes in technology that have driven the industry
forward, and reveals how the last hundred years of wildlife films has
as much to do with our social attitudes as it has to do with the
animals themselves.
With stunning, exciting and sometimes
shocking footage, the documentary explores the changing trends
throughout the last century, from shooting animals for fun in the 1930s
to campaigning to save them from extinction today. As Oddie says: "To
me the ultimate aim, the hope, the prayer behind every wildlife film...
it's to make us care about the natural world and say 'here's something
we love - we don't want to lose it'."
Plus, film-makers explain the
challenges that filming animals can pose, we find out more about the
pioneers, discover who was first to film underwater - and who narrowly
escaped death to get the shots they wanted.
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