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The Black Stilt

Television, 1983

 The Black Stilt

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 Synopsis

This film tells the story of the world’s rarest wading bird, the black stilt (kakī). With its precise beak and long pink legs the stilt is superbly adapted to the stony braided riverbeads of the McKenzie Country, but it is tragically unable to deal with new threats (rats, ferrets, habitat loss). An early doco for TVNZ’s Natural History Unit, the magnificently filmed drama of the stilt’s struggle for survival makes it “stand out as a classic of its genre” (Russell Campbell). It won the Gold Award at New York’s International Film & TV Festival (1984).

 Credits

 Rod Morris
 Swami Hansa
 Mike Lemmon
 Paul Donovan
 
 

 Collections

Included in the Nature Collection - Oct 2009

 

 Background

A Perspective by Russell Campbell | 19.10.2009

Many nature films transport us into a realm of enhanced vision. With their suberb technology of telephoto lenses, of macrocinematography, microcinematography, time lapse filming, underwater and aerial filming, they supplant our own eyes, offering ...

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