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Raising the mammoth
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It is a sight to behold: an air-borne woolly mammoth.On 18 October 1999 a 20,000-year-old woolly mammoth made the historic first flight of his extinct species harnessed to a huge Russian helicopter in remote Siberia and encased in a 23-tonne chunk of permafrost. The helicopter slowly lifted off from the dig site and flew its ancient cargo to an ice cave more than 322 kilometres away for future study.
Now you can relive the full, amazing adventure of how this ancient animal was discovered in this remote corner of the globe and painstakingly released from its icy grave by a team of scientists led by French explorer Bernard Buigues. Raising the mammoth is a mammoth story vividly bridging the 21st century and our prehistoric past.
Featuring Larry Agenbroad, Dick Mol and NK Vereshchagin. Narrated by Jeff Bridges. Written by Adrienne Ciuffo, directed by Jean-Charles Deniau.
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More than enough. Raising the mammoth relies way too much on some mundane special effects and a sense of tension that never gets beyond maudlin.That's what happens when you pad-out a one hour documentary to two hours.
Apart from that there's some good stuff about mammoths which you wouldn't have known and the actual discovery of the beast is worth seeing (how many actual woolly mammoths have you run into recently?). It's just that there's too much padding around the good bits, like a stew for two being made into soup for four. If you're a documentary fan who was bowled over by Walking with dinosaurs you'll be underarm bowled by Raising the mammoth as the most important part, the scientific investigation of the mammoth and the discoveries it unleashes, is left for Raising the mammoth II.
If you've never known anything about the mammoth and the area in which they're searching, you'll learn some stuff. If you do, you'll have time to nip out to the kitchen and make a cup of tea, and maybe some scones, too.
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G
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120 minutes (2:00 hours)
Not for public release in Australia before date
DVD rental: 6 November 2000
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