Some 15 years before I worked there, Wild Kingdom filmed an episode at a large scout camp where I worked for one summer. We had a 16mm black-and-white print of that show and it had become an annual event for a staff free-evening each summer to screen it. Some of the staff were long-term returnees for long enough that they remembered the filming, and they had stories about all the animal interactions being staged scenarios with captive animals being brought-in for the purpose. Mind you all the antelope, elk, puma, coyote, badger, beaver etc. were animal species that were present there in the wild and not so rare that there weren't frequent sightings, so it was perhaps "enhanced realism" rather than fiction. Anyway, I suspect that some clever editing was done in the video above to make a series of disparate shots look far more dramatic than was the actual situation during filming.
Some 15 years before I worked there, Wild Kingdom filmed an episode at a large scout camp where I worked for one summer. We had a 16mm black-and-white print of that show and it had become an annual event for a staff free-evening each summer to screen it.
ReplyDeleteSome of the staff were long-term returnees for long enough that they remembered the filming, and they had stories about all the animal interactions being staged scenarios with captive animals being brought-in for the purpose.
Mind you all the antelope, elk, puma, coyote, badger, beaver etc. were animal species that were present there in the wild and not so rare that there weren't frequent sightings, so it was perhaps "enhanced realism" rather than fiction.
Anyway, I suspect that some clever editing was done in the video above to make a series of disparate shots look far more dramatic than was the actual situation during filming.
I suspect that anaconda was not as dangerous as presented here, yes. Good to have some real background on it.
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