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Galapagos 3D (2013)

Galapagos 3D poster
Original title
Galapagos 3D with David Attenborough
Genre
documentary film, nature documentary, documentary television program
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 21 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

David Attenborough travels to the Galapagos Islands to explain how the islands formed and how their unique animals evolved. He explores the archipelago in 3D, showing underwater life and a newly discovered pink land iguana.

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What happens

Galapagos 3D is a British nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, directed by Martin Williams and filmed in 3D. Attenborough returns to the Galápagos Islands for the fourth time in his career and travels throughout the archipelago to explain their origins and their unique fauna in evolutionary terms. The series premiered on 1 January 2013 on the Sky 3D network in the UK. A 2D version retitled Galapagos with David Attenborough was simulcast on Sky One, attracting 563,000 viewers. The making of the series was documented in the accompanying programme Making Attenborough's Galapagos. Galapagos 3D is Attenborough's second 3D television series following 2012's Kingdom of Plants, and his fourth 3D project for Sky television after the earlier one-off documentaries Flying Monsters 3D and The Bachelor King 3D. In common with its predecessors, Galapagos 3D was produced by Colossus Productions, a partnership between Atlantic Productions and Sky. The series is notable for its pioneering use of 3D cameras for underwater filming. It also features the first known footage of the Galápagos pink land iguana, a new species of lizard identified in 2009, and Attenborough's encounter with Lonesome George, the last Pinta Island tortoise, filmed a fortnight before the animal's death. In 2013 Attenborough narrated Sky 3D's next natural history series on invertebrates, Micro Monsters 3D. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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