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A Perfect Planet ★ Complete BBC Earth Series - Subtitles and Dolby Pro Logic II Audio included!
I found the Source DVD ISO Images here: https://archive.org/details/a-perfect-planet-iso My thanks to the uploader!!
Series contains images that may disturb some viewers - especially #5 Humans "the rescue of orphaned elephants in Kenya" which was particularly upsetting to me - sensitive viewers may wish to skip over the first part of that section.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Perfect_Planet
A Perfect Planet is a 2021 five-part earth science series presented by David Attenborough. The first episode premiered on 3 January 2021 on BBC One. Filming took place over four years, across 31 countries, with crew navigating difficulties in extreme temperatures and remote locations. The editing process was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The series covers volcanoes, the sun, weather and oceans, with the final episode focusing on human impact on the environment. It received positive critical reception.
Filming The premiere "Volcano" features flamingo coverage at Lake Natron that Attenborough described as "one of the most memorable sequences [that he'd] seen on television". To get to Lake Natron, a hovercraft had to be shipped from the U.K. Crew had to wear snowshoes on mud flats to avoid burns due to the heat. Series producer Huw Cordey found the "remoteness" of the Galapagos to be a challenge while filming there.
For "The Sun", episode two, producer Nick Shoolingin-Jordan and cameraperson Rolf Steinmann both experienced technical difficulties with extreme temperatures, Shoolingin-Jordan on Ellesmere Island and in a desert, and Steinmann in the Arctic. In the desert, fabrics soaked in water were required to cool down the camera to a temperature at which it could operate, while drone cameras in the Arctic had a limited operation time between being heated up with a hairdryer and freezing immobile while filming.
"Weather" depicts the Gobi Desert, which Attenborough has not visited. The crew searched to find a camel species numbering 450 in the desert and 1000 in the world. He said: "I'm not likely to be sent there, because there aren't many animals, but there are fossils and I would love to go." The episode's producer, Ed Charles, reported that there was "literally no sound other than the whisper of the wind", describing it as a "very odd sensation". He said that several days often passed without "even a hint of another living animal". Camera operator Sophie Darlington said that not stepping on the Christmas Island red crabs seen in "Weather" was a difficulty, with crew having to rake the ground to clear the creatures away.
Charles said that the cuttlefish in "Oceans" began displaying more vibrant colours when they adjusted to the crew's presence. A wood frog in one episode freezes itself as an alternative to hibernation; to capture this action, crew filmed inside a freezer for 10 days.
The final episode, "Humans", was described by Attenborough as "the most important story of our times": it covers human impact on the environment. It shows the result of three weeks' filming on a Neptune's Navy ship. To board fishing boats, the crew would approach in small, fast boats from a distance; only boats which were fishing legally were successfully boarded. Assistant producer Emily Franke aimed to "show viewers the impact of our fishing practices".
The series is narrated by David Attenborough.
I left the Subtitles in the Video, and Encoded the sound as Dolby Pro Logic II - in order to use these features you'll need to download these videos: and play them from your device.
- Archive
- Internet Archive, in Lost telecourses
- Licence or status
- Public Domain Mark 1.0, as the Internet Archive states it.
- Rights statement
- Fair Use Notice
- Credit
- BBC
- Language
- English
- Who can watch
- The archive gives no rating. Invisible Network shows it to Tweens profiles and older, judged from its collection and subjects. How films are placed