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Life in the Undergrowth
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0794051251428
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: BBC Warner
Languages: English (Original Language),
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
MPN: E2514
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 02, 2006
Running Time: 250 minutes
Studio: BBC Warner
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Editorial Review:
David Attenborough guides the viewer through a miniature universe teeming with life never normally seen yet all around us. New technology reveals surreal vistas and their extraordinary inhabitants -- swarming antler moths desert locusts and a mountain of cockroaches -- up close and personal. The bizarre and the beautiful are represented and their habits lifestyles and characteristics explained in David Attenborough's inimitable style. Though small these creatures are as ferocious as any seen before.Running Time: 250 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: NR UPC: 794051251428 Manufacturer No: E2514
By getting up close and personal with Life in the Undergrowth, this extraordinary BBC series sets a new standard of excellence in wildlife cinematography. Hosted by veteran nature expert David Attenborough and utilizing the latest advances in macrophotography, the five-part series is dedicated to bugs of all shapes and sizes, from microscopic gnats to cave-dwelling millipedes so large they can capture bats in mid-flight and feast for hours thereafter! The patience involved in filming such previously unseen marvels must have been grueling (as confirmed by producer Mike Salisbury in a splendid bonus interview), but the results are nothing less than astonishing, with a parade of sequences so impressive that even insect-haters will pause in amazement. With an emphasis on reproduction and mating behaviors, each program focuses on a different, generalized group of creatures, many of them never filmed before, so that lay-persons and entomologists will be equally enlightened by discoveries made in the process of filming.
As always, Attenborough serves as an expert witness, cordial, fearless, and quintessentially British as he explains what we're seeing, from the nocturnal fluorescence of scorpions (glowing at night in ultraviolet light, they perform a mating dance playfully described as "a nuptial pas de deux") to the mysterious, 17-year life cycle of the cicada. Throughout, we see everything, both frightening and beautiful, from an intimate, bug's-eye view, in detail so vividly colorful that you'll never view the insect world in quite the same way again. (Likewise for the diverse variety of critters on view in episode 3: "The Silk Spinners," which according to Salisbury is capable of curing arachnophobes from their irrational fear of spiders.) Just when you think Life in the Undergrowth couldn't get any more fascinating, it does: episode 4, "Intimate Relations," shows how many insects symbiotically depend on other species for food, shelter, or completion of their reproductive cycles, and episode 5, "Supersocieties," focuses on the social complexities of insect colonists like ants and termites. Enough to give you the creeps for days, you say? Think again, for after seeing Life in the Undergrowth (a perfect companion piece to the Nova episode "The Unknown World"), you may find yourself in the garden, on your knees, eager for a better look at the countless millions of tiny creatures that surround us every day. --Jeff Shannon
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Quality product
Typical BBC quality. If you like nature, hard to imagine you won't enjoy this. Product delivered as promised and on time.
Rating:  - Why are British naturalists obsessed with mating?
These programs have absolutely incredible cinematography. Unfortunately, I can scarcely show some of them to my budding 4-year-old naturalist, because every other scene involves mating. Not some tastefully ambiguous relationship, but the most frighteningly explicit stuff you could imagine. We're talking the kama sutra of nature videos, a willful indulgence in the sheer variety and implausibility of mating patterns. This seems to be a characteristic of all the BBC videos I've purchased... whether ... Read More
Rating: - Magnificent!!
Another top winner from BBC video productions!! It will change forever your perception of the insect world. This is an incredibly beautiful DVD, very worth watching several times! The music is sublime and the images are crisp and clear. It reminds me a little bit of "Microcosmos". Too bad, there are only 5 episodes. Even though, this is money well spent, along with all the other BBC videos (Living planet, Planet Earth, Mammals, etc, etc) Beware of the negative ratings from brainwashed creationists. ... Read More
Rating: - Great service
Video is very well made. Loved it. Would buy from this person again. I got the product very fast. No problems at all.
Rating: - Life In The Undergrowth
This DVD set is fantastic, it has stunning screen shots that will both fascinate and intrigue and at times send chills down your spine, the world of insects as we know it can never be thought the same after you watch this masterpiece; and the fact that David Attenborough narrates makes it all the better.
~MTChaput
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