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Animals Are Beautiful People (Slip)
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Product Details
- Starring: Paddy O'Byrne
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- Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Jamie Uys
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- EAN: 9780790742663
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- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 0790742667
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- Label: Warner Home Video
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- Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: Warner Home Video
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- Release Date: 1995-02-06
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- Studio: Warner Home Video
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1974-11
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- Title: Animals Are Beautiful People (Slip)
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- UPC: 085391751038
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Product Description: On the short list for the "world's toughest place to live" award, Southwest Africa's Namib Desert houses a wealth of intriguing creatures, featured in Jamie Uys's Animals are Beautiful People. As various beasts, bugs, fish, and fowl appear, a soft-spoken narrator pinpoints behaviors that mirror human ones, often inventing whimsical tales meant to inspire chuckles or sighs. A male wart hog, a "homely bachelor," lands a "wife" with a penchant for redecorating his burrow; austere maribou glower like disapproving undertakers; a billowy, nameless fish is called a dizzy blonde. Uys's respect for the harsh lifestyle these creatures endure clearly displays itself amid the comical sound effects and Fantasia-lite melodies that infuse the 90-minute show. The result: a richly informative, beautifully filmed lesson in the power of adaptation and the lush wildlife that inhabits the cradle of civilization. Six years after completing this project, Uys went on to create The Gods Must Be Crazy. (Ages 5 and older) --Liane Thomas
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Customer Reviews
Beautiful indeed, a different kind of a documentary
From Jamie Uys, the director who gave us "The Gods must be Crazy 1 and 2" comes this very differently made yet interesting documentary. Only "Walt Disney's Wild Life Adventures" comes close. The enduring beauty of the lives of the animals, their natural habitats and the beauty of African nature all come together in this documentary that shares several scenes (particularly about the Kalahari bushmen) with "The Gods must be crazy" films.
Considering documentaries made of animals during that era "King Elephant", "Ape and Super Ape" Jamie Uys made sure the documentary was entertaining and that is the highlight of the movie. However watching the DVD many years later a lot of errors can be spotted. The inebriated apes scene after consumption of the fruit was completed fabricated. The scene where the bushman traps the monkey using the old fist-in-the-bottle trick was animated and literally took away the joy of the real thing. Even the sidewinder scaring off the elephant in the desert, and a drop of dew acting as a lens for the sunlight to burn of a nest seemed phony (editing tricks) though such happenings are possible. But otherwise several other beautiful scenes make this a great DVD to watch with your kids and for first-timers.
When it was released in Chennai decades ago it was titled "Beautiful People" and it had a run like any of the blockbusters of that time did.
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Animals Are Beautiful People
I loved the DVD. The color was wonderful, the subject matter was very entertaining. Thanks so much.
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Nice video
This is a very beautiful movie. Some funny parts I had never seen before in other movies.
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Still good
Still an entertaining to watch as it was when I was a kid, an now I get to share it with my kids. They love to watch it. Their age 2 an 8, an enjoy it at about once a week.
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not a conservationist / nature lover
I have only contempt for this guy who torches a large old weaver bird colony nest for the sake of this movie. As if a dewdrop could start a fire in this desert, and just when the camera was focussing on it. Shame on you low life!
Paul W M, Toronto Canada
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