Serengeti Stories
"Serengeti Stories: The Work of Hugo van Lawick" follows the famed wildlife filmmaker and includes clips of his masterpiece, "People of the Forest," about chimpanzees and their social relationships. Also: clips of "Wild Dogs of Africa" (1972), a heroic story of survival.
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For more than 30 years, master filmmaker Hugo van Lawick has lived and worked in Africa's Serengeti plains, capturing the powerful dreams of life, death, survival, and the unguarded secrets of animal's lives. Excerpts from his intimate and award-winning portraits of cheetahs, leopards, wild dogs and chimpanzees are featured in this retrospective of Hugo's life, including his groundbreaking work with Jane Goodall. 1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : 4 3/4 in Not rated DVD Narrated by Joseph Campanella For TV Matters/Nature Conservation Films: produced by Bruce Mundt ; written by Janet Hess ; directed by Hans Bosscher ; edited by Alan Miller ; consultant, Hugo van Lawick Originally broadcast as a segment of the television program Nature
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