The following comes from the CBC "Fifth Estate" web page, http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/
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The following comes from the CBC "Fifth Estate" web page, http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/
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COMING UP:
Wednesday January 16, 2008 -- CBC-TV 9pm (eastern)
CRUEL Camera
Twenty-five years ago, Bob Mckeown and a fifth estate crew stunned the country with an investigative report that showed that many of the wildlife documentaries we'd grown up watching on television (remember the famous footage of the lemmings going off the cliff or some of the memorable moments from shows like Wild Kingdom?) were staged for the television cameras. As well, they revealed that animals often died during the making of movies; all for the sake of the entertainment value.
Now, Bob McKeown and an investigative team have returned to the subject to find out what has changed since the fifth estate's first Cruel Camera documentary. What they found may astonish you.
Watch an excerpt: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/popup.html?/mrl3/8752/fifth/media/cruelcamera_promo.wmv
(If that link is too long to work, go to http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/ and find it there.)
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From DawnWatch:
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I send thanks to Catherine King for making sure we knew about this.
Yours and the animals',
Karen Dawn
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Date: Tue Jan 15 16:22:13 2008
