Botanic man. - Volume 1: Episodes 1-4. | Robert Fleming | 1980 | ACMI collection

A compilation of David Bellamy’s “Greenprint for life”, “The Crucible of life”, “Living Water”, and “Potential energy”. Contents include Amazon rain forest ecology, the emergence of the earliest life forms, marine ecology and the Peruvian trench, the evolutionary transition from sea to land and its legacy of peat and coal deposits.

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Credits

director

Graeme Duckham

Robert Fleming

producer/director

Randal Beattie

production company

Thames Television International

Duration

01:44:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1980

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

508096

Language

English

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television

Animals & Wildlife → Evolution (Biology)

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Fossil fuels

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Natural history

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Rain forests - Amazon River Region

Mathematics, Science & Technology → Evolution (Biology)

Television

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Botanic man. - Volume 1: Episodes 1-4.

United Kingdom, 1980

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