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Natural World - Bringing Up Baby
UK / 2009
Producer: Mark Fletcher
Director:
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Mark Fletcher
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: BBC Natural History Archive
Bringing Up Baby explores the vital bond between animal mothers and their babies. Mothers are faced with tough choices as they struggle to bring up babies in a dangerous world - balancing their own needs with those of their infants. From the fish who looks after her young in her mouth to the extended childhoods of gorillas or orang-utans, at the heart of this story is a mother’s love. You might expect elephants and monkeys to show love and grief, but what about penguins or lions? The more we study animals the more we realise just how emotional they are.
Bringing together a collection of diverse and emotionally rich sequences, this film carefully threads the young lives of animals through a seamless piece of archive videography. Collating footage from the last decade of natural history output, the film delightfully illustrates the new and exciting science of animal emotion. Producer Mark Fletcher has continued his strength of consistently producing high-quality visual stories from the Natural History Unit’s unique and extensive archive resource.
Operation Deep Sea - Shedding Light in the Darkness
Marco Polo Film AG
Germany / 2009
Producer: Annette Scheurich
Director: Annette Scheurich
Footage Archive Researcher & Writer: Tim Förderer
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
IFM Geomar
Leibniz Institute for Marine Sciences
MARUM
Center for Marine Environmental Research University of Bremen
Ifremer
David Shale
Craig Smith, University of Hawaii-Manoa, USA
Benthic Ecology Laboratory
This documentary shows a thrilling journey of international scientists to the depths of our oceans. It’s a realm without light where enormous pressure and glacial temperatures rules existence. What kind of creatures can survive here? In what way is our climate influenced by the deep sea? And even though the deep sea covers more than 90 percent of our planet, we know less about it, than about the surface of the moon.
Deep Sea Science is spread around the world and often only scientists can obtain footage from their experiments, expeditions and probes into the deep sea, which is rather inaccessible for filming. Finding this unique footage is a matter of intensive research and communication with scientists. The researcher needs to know the Universities, Institutions and research facilities, what the scientists are doing and what is on their agenda. Only then can they find the footage that makes “Operation Deep Sea” a science film and a source of information about the latest developments in the unknown depth of our home planet.
Shark Nicole
NHNZ /
New Zealand / 2009
Producer: Andrew Waterworth
Director: Rory McGuiness
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Lemuel Lyes
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
Absolutely Wild Visuals
Saint Thomas Productions
Splashdown Direct
David Hannan Productions
Save Our Seas
All the Earth’s oceans are home to great white sharks yet for years their movements remained an enigma. Keen to learn more about these magnificent creatures a research team including Michael Scholl and Dr. Ramon Bonfil fit a satellite tag to a female shark Ramon names "Nicole". Drawn by overpowering natural instincts, Nicole will navigate icy cold waters, dive to unfathomable depths, battle hunger and fatigue and outsmart some of the Indian Ocean’s most lethal inhabitants. See and feel her ocean home through her eyes and senses - a magical world full of wonder, mystery, and danger.
Shark Nicole tells the story of an individual shark on an unimaginable journey across the Indian Ocean. To tell Nicole’s story, NHNZ drew on a large number of specialist footage sources to showcase the rare behaviour, unique wildlife interaction and seemingly insurmountable challenges faced by this magnificent yet maligned animal. We were determined Shark Nicole would not be yet another “bitey” Shark programme. The use of archival footage to compliment NHNZ’s own stock footage and footage shot on location was crucial to break down stereotypes about great whites through the sensitive portrayal of Nicole’s story.
The WotWots
Pukeko Pictures
New Zealand / 2009
Producer: Jan Haynes
Director: Theo Baynton
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Jan Haynes & Jamie Thorp
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited:
NHNZ Moving Images
Australian Broadcasting Corporation TV Archives & Library Services
From the creative minds of Weta Workshop comes the WotWots, a stunning television series for preschoolers. Filmed at Wellington and Auckland Zoos, this series follows the adventures of two adorable siblings from outer space, SpottyWot and DottyWot. These delightful creatures come to explore planet earth in their steam-powered spaceship and arrive in the middle of a zoo. This inquisitive and energetic brother and sister duo delight in discovering all the exotic animals that live at the zoo, as they scoot around on their hover-chairs. The WotWots wonder who they are and what they'll look like when they are fully grown adults. Will they look like one of the zoo animals outside?
The show is energetic, colourful and entertaining, with all adventures built on one central ingredient which defines the series - the joy of learning and discovery. In each episode the WotWots help children to celebrate and understand the diversity of the animal world. They recognise kindness and co-operation as core values, delight in learning new words and enjoy exploring their creativity through drawing.
Walk on the Wild Side
BBC
UK / 2009
Producer: Mark Lucey
Director:
Footage Archive Researcher(s): Eamonn Bownes & Rowena Haley
Top 5 Source(s) of Library Footage used in Production cited: BBC Natural History Archive
Walk on the Wild Side is a brand new comedy series that seeks to provide a long overdue forum for the views and opinions of the animal kingdom. It's a world of hip hop-loving badgers, a Spanish speaking mouse and a Marmot called Alan. They and a whole bunch of other characters come together in this new show which combines comedy with jaw-dropping natural history footage.
Combining natural history footage with comedy isn't as easy as this show makes it look. It was the skilled eyes of the research team - finding those genuinely anthropomorphic moments - together with a group of terrific writers and performers which turned an ordinary idea into something out of the ordinary.
