RobertBrown
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Veteran wildlife cameraman Robert Brown has filmed everything from polar bears to pukeko in places from the Arctic to the Antarctic. He shot the rare bird stories that led to the formation of state television's Natural History Unit (later NHNZ), and contributed to classic BBC David Attenborough series, such as Life on Earth and The Living Planet. In 1981 he won a Feltex Award for his work on Wild South.
Screenography
Biography
Robert Brown grew up on the Taieri Plains, southwest of Dunedin. His father and grandfather took him on hunting trips into Fiordland and the Southern Alps as a boy. He told Otago Daily Times writer Sally Rae that his grandfather "just taught me so much – looking for little things, as to whether their ears were back or up, or whether their pupils were enlarged, the flicking of the tail and body posture. You really learnt to understand animals, know what they are going to do before they do it."
Awards
1981 Feltex Television Awards (New Zealand)
Stan Hosgood Award for Excellence in Allied Craft
“I have worked with Robert over the last 20 years on projects such as The Living Planet, The Trials Of Life and The Life Of Birds, and have come to greatly admire his enthusiasm, temperament and specialist wildlife camera skills.”