The Making of a natural history film
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This behind-the-scenes look at some of the elaborate preparations involved in filming a nature sequence follows a group of Oxford University graduates dedicated to getting the unconventional shot. They reconstruct nests for an inside view of a mother bird feeding her young and record the action of insect-eating plants. The group's special expertise, underwater photography, is displayed in a sequence on the stickleback fish.
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