Blue planet: deep sea (bbc doc.)
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Topic: Blue planet: deep sea (bbc doc.)
Posted By: DayI
Subject: Blue planet: deep sea (bbc doc.)
Date Posted: 20-Apr-2007 at 09:24
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I watched it and its fking great if you ask me! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-a6gVg2BRE - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-a6gVg2BRE ------------- Bu mıntıka'nın Dayı'sı http://imageshack.us - [IMG - http://www.allempires.com/forum/uploads/DayI/2006-03-17_164450_bscap021.jpg - |
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Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 20-Apr-2007 at 09:49
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I agree - Blue Planet was a masterpiece. My favourite segment would
have to be the Sardine feeding frenzy off Natal, South Africa, with the
dolphins, sharks, gannets, whales and sardines (of course...). Do you have any favourite segments? ------------- |
Posted By: Justinian
Date Posted: 19-Jul-2007 at 00:20
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Is there a difference between what the british saw and what was shown in america? I thought I saw that the british version had a male narrator while the one broadcast in america has sigourney weaver as narrator. Anyway I love this program, I saw it on sale for $50 but only had about 100 in my checking account at the time. Now that its not so low I am definitely considering going back and buying a copy.
Edit: I just realized what I am talking about is planet earth.   ------------- "War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."--Thomas Mann 
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Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 19-Jul-2007 at 03:31
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Don't worry. I know that the English and Australian versions of Blue Planet and Planet Earth are narrated by only the greatest, Attenborough.
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Posted By: Lotus
Date Posted: 19-Jul-2007 at 04:10
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Can’t believe the David Attenborough series ‘life on earth’ is now 28 years old, everybody I know seems to have a copy of the book that accompanied the series. There’s a 24 DVD disk box set of his works on sale in the BBC shop
http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/bbcdvd1876 - http://www.bbcshop.com/invt/bbcdvd1876
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Posted By: Dolphin
Date Posted: 19-Jul-2007 at 04:24
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Blue planet was definitely great, but I preferred his less glossy earlier series, just because I was sure what I was seeing was really there. Like when you see a leopard chasing a baboon nowadays, the chances are that it's two seperate events edited to look like single footage. That's why the baboon gets away most of the time. Like how do they know which way the animals are going to run, or which tree the baboon will climb? Of course i'm talking about second rate shows, not Attenborough's, he kinda insists on realism.
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Posted By: elenos
Date Posted: 19-Jul-2007 at 09:15
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The was one unintentionally funny shot where David Attanborough stands as the usual Mr Cool in a bat cave. He was saying bats have an amazing sense of direction through their inbuilt radar and rarely ever hit anything. WHACK - one the little beasts flew straight into the side of his head!
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Posted By: Knights
Date Posted: 19-Jul-2007 at 09:22
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Hilarious! He has experienced several embarrassing moments out in the field, another example where he gets continuously charged by a territorial male Capercaillie (bird). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xSj5XcByuA - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xSj5XcByuA ------------- |
Posted By: elenos
Date Posted: 19-Jul-2007 at 18:39
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Yeah! Capercaillie rules! He did try facing it but fell over!
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Posted By: Paul
Date Posted: 19-Jul-2007 at 18:45
I think it's a pretty common phenomena. Most US documentaries shown in the UK are re-narrated by a British narrator. I presume it's the same in reverse in the US. (Funnily enough it's not so with Australian docs though which the original narrator is left).
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Posted By: elenos
Date Posted: 19-Jul-2007 at 22:55
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We do get English and American commentators in Australia but I never take much notice, being a Nature Worshipper I follow all natural history shows. ------------- elenos |