| Description | Press cuttings from various newspapers/magazines collected by Jeffery Boswall.
1980s
-'Let's keep our nature fresh' by Peter Fiddick, [unknown publication], [c 1980], p 22 [warning against the complacencies of success] [photocopy]
-'Nature unit films tribal fight' by Jim McPherson, SCAN, 18 February 1980, pp 6-7 [profile on the ABC Natural History Unit, Australia]
-'The sun never sets on British charm' by Marty Gallanter, TV Guide, 22 March 1980, pp 28-29 [account of filming a documentary with the BBC on the Hudson River with Pete Seeger]
-'TV producers are mad as hell and they aren't going to take it anymore' by Paul Bernstein, Passages, March 1980, pp 20-23 [profile on Caucus for Producers, Writers and Directors]
-'The mink has to be pregnant or dying - fans of wildlife shows won't settle any longer for standard shots' by Lisa See, TV Guide, 10-16 May 1980, pp 19-22
-'Wags to riches - advertising's animal kingdom', Time, 17 November 1980, p 85 [use of wildlife in advertising]
-'Shooting wildlife - ever so game!', TV Guide, 27 June 1981, pp 12-13 [profile on Alan and Joan Root for 'Lights! Camera! Africa!' (CBS)]
-'Stalking the world of nature with BBC's superguide' by Timothy S. Green, Smithsonian, Vol. 12, No. 8, November 1981, pp 134-142 [profile on 'Life on Earth' with David Attenborough] [photocopy]
-'Feast of New Forest wildlife films for TV' [profile on 'The World About Us: Eye on the Forest' on Eric Ashby] [publication unknown], [1981]
-'Life on Earth', TV Guide, 9 January 1982, pp 36-37
-'Two PBS gifts for the New Year' by Gerald Clarke, Time, 11 January 1982, p 81 [review of 'Life on Earth' on PBS]
-'The BBC's 'Life on Earth' - 'a brilliant achievement'' by John J. O'Connor, New York Times, 17 January 1982, p27
-Profile on 'Genesis' by ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp) with reference to 'Life on Earth' [author unknown], The Australian, 5 May 1982 [page unknown]
-'Nature films: the action is unnaturally cruel' by Brian Vallee, Chicago Tribute, 4 November 1982, pp 5-6 [investigation by CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp.) on deception in wildlife films]
-'Bristol is the setting for Wildscreen '84' by Alston Thomas, Bristol Evening Post, 18 May 1983, p 6
-'Viewers' loves and hates' by David Housham, Television Weekly, 17 June 1983, p 9 [nature/travel programmes mentioned] [photocopy]
-'The viewers' view - what we think of our TV programmes', 'TV: The Viewers' View', November 1983, pp 494-497 [nature/wildlife mentioned] [photocopy]
-'Johnny [Morris] furious as his Animal Magic is axed' by Alston Thomas, Bristol Evening Post, 16 November 1984, p 6
-''Geographic' explores new terrain' by Terry Atkinson, [publication unknown], 1985 [launch of National Geographic cable channel]
-'The Woods Are Lovely, Dark, Musical' by Miv Schaaf, Los Angeles Times, 13 March 1985, [critique of the use of music in wildlife films]
-'Filming with the Durrells at Ryazan nature reserve' [author unknown], Soviet Weekly, 22 June 1985, p13
-'Naturalists in Egg Smuggling Plot Ordered to Make Videos' by George Ramos, Los Angeles Times, 30 September 1985 [page unknown]
-'Russians grumble about their TV shows, too' by Morgan Gendel, Los Angeles Times, 12 October 1985 [page unknown]
-'The Naturals - filmmakers can't always rely on wildlife for the perfect shot' by Ralph Jimenez, Concord Monitor, 20 November 1985 [page unknown] [examines the recent article 'Art and Artifice in Wildlife Films' (Discover) and famous sequences by Walt Disney - refers to a discussion around the issue at the BKSTS International Wildlife Film-makers Symposium in Bath]
-'The phenomenon of animals that view television may explain the nature of wildlife programming' by Jack Smith, Los Angeles Times, 17 December 1985 [page unknown]
-'Durrell in Russia' by Vladimir Rakov, Soviet Weekly, 21 Deember 1985
-'Animated parrot helps keep real ones alive' by Rolf Olsen, San Juan Star, 27 January 1986, p11
-'How the quacks got it all wrong again' [author unknown], Daily Express, 12 February 1986 [page unknown] and 'Micky Mouse found guilty' by Harry Pugh, The Star, 12 February 1986 [page unknown]
-'The End of Eden' review by Tone, Variety, 28 February 1986, p 18
-'Here's another Russian' by Duncan James, You Magazine [Mail on Sunday], [c 1986], pp60-63 [interview with Gerald Durrell concerning 'Durrell in Russia (Channel Four)]
-'Dying to photograph grizzlies' by Bill McRae, Sports Afield, September 1987, pp 75-77, 116-118 [photocopy]
-'Call of the wild', Melody Maker, 12 September 1987, p 44 [profile on Natural Sounds Music with Robin Lumley and Pete Willsher] [photocopy]
-'Exposing your ethics' by Ron Spomer, Wildlife Art News, September/October 1987, pp 99-102 [photocopy]
-'Hunting wildlife with a movie camera' by Suzanne Charle, New York Times, 13 March 1988, p31, p 39 [profile on film-makers behind the scenes of wildlife films, including Alan Degen, Wolfgang Bayer and Hugh Miles]
-'At Home in the Wild' by Sheila Purcell, The Journal, 10 August 1989, p 18 [interview with Eric Ashby]
-[Carl] Giles cartoon - 'From the BBC. Urgent economies. All future safaris on the sex-life of the Lowland Gorilla Flea will journey no further than the London Zoo', [Daily Express?] [date unknown] [page unknown].
1990s
-'Vicky's way of saying thanks' [feature on Eric Ashby's MBE] [publication unknown] [1992]
-'Have camera will travel' by Richard M. Ketchum, Natural History, January 1993, [pages unknown] [profile on Martin and Osa Johnson] [photocopy]
-'Gorillas in their midst - an IMAX team's adventure' by Ron Magid, American Cinematographer, August 1993, pp 38-[44] [interview with Adrian Warren] [photocopy]
-'Life from the BBC' by Helen Gibson, Time, 29 May 1995, pp 70-72 [interview with David Attenborough]
-'The call of the wildlife show - aren't they adorable? Viewers and sponsors certainly think so' by Mindy Sink, New York Times, 15 April 1996 [page unknown] [article on the popularity of wildlife film programming on television and cable]
-'Africa: untamed, uncensored, and on celluloid' by Richard B. Woodward, Outside, May 1996, pp 84-88, 142-148 [photocopy]
-'Hollywood bugs' by Philip Cohen, [unknown publication], 27 July 1996, pp 27-29 [profile on Steven Kutcher]
-'A hidden world' by Bruce Crumley, Time, 17 February 1997, pp 56-57 [review of 'Microcosmos: People of the Grass']
-'The Call of the Wild' by Ros Wynne-Jones, Independent on Sunday, 21 December 1997, pp 7-9 [interview with Sir David Attenborough recounting his career at the BBC Natural History Unit, ahead of 'Natural History Night' on BBC Two]
-'The honourable trade of making sense of Durham' by Kate Adie, Media + supplement, The Independent, 5 January 1998, p 3 [article on cuts to local radio]
-'In HDTV Age, VCRs await successor as confusion sets in over technology' by Evan Ramstad, Wall Street Journal Europe, 9 April 1998, p10
-'Behind the scenes - owl in a day's work in prairie dog town', National Geographic, April 1998 [page unknown] [Walter Boggs attempts to film prairie dog in their burrows]
-'The Survival Collection' advert for VHS boxset, [unknown publication] [c 1998]
-'Eventing etiquette: a users guide' by John Marshall, DOCtv, Vol. 2, No. 23, 29 November 1999, p7
-Four 'Company Town' articles concerning natural history film, Los Angeles Times [1990s] [photocopies]
2000s
-'Die Fledermaus im Windkanal' von Herbert Ostwald, Taz, 30 October 2000, p15 [article in German discussing Bristol and Wildscreen] [photocopy]
-'Endangered species - why wildlife is dying out on television' by Steve Clarke, Evening Standard, 1 November 2000, p 64 [photocopy]
-'Art and science blend in unique film school' by Gail Schontzler, Los Angeles Times, [c November 2003] [page unknown] [profile of Montana State University's graduate program in science and natural history film-making]
-'Leader of the pack' by Tim Davey, Bristol Times, 17 August 2004, pp 34-35 [how Bristol became an international centre of excellence in wildlife film-making, and timeline of Natural History Unit's milestones].
-''Quiet on the set' quickly dying out' by Guy Hand, Los Angeles Times, 28 September 2004 [profile on Jackson Hole and Wildscreen, questions around action and the evolution of wildlife film-making, staying relevant]
-'Strictly no dancing: the wildlife of Gerald Durrell', The Scotsman, 18 February 2006
-'A flowering evil' by Mark Seal, Vanity Fair, August 2006, pp 78-86, 136-140 [investigation into the flower-farming industry in Africa and the murder of Joan Root]
-'Big game big problem' by Graham Boynton, ultratravel [c 2006], pp 36-46 [article on the elephant population in South Africa nad potential mass culls, featuring Christiaan Bakkes, Dereck and Beverly Joubert]
-'Retire? That's just not in my nature' by Mary Riddell, Daily Mail, 1 September 2007, pp 19-20 [interview with Sir David Attenborough]
-'Autumnwatch's Simon King recalls his hilarious adventures as an 11-year-old suburban Tarzan', Mail Online [Daily Mail], 1 August 2009
-'Great Migrations' promotional supplement [National Geographic series] [2010]
-Daily Mail Weekend supplement, 13 February 2010 [Cover feature 'Shetland Stories' with Simon King, pp 8-9]
-Sky Magazine, March 2010 [feature 'The 33 best animal shows on TV', pp 51-62]
-Tv-bay Magazine, Issue 037 [2010] [feature 'Ask the experts - location sound recording and post-production with Chris Watson', pp 40-42]
-'3D African Wildlife Pilot - Distant Thunder', Tv-bay Magazine, Issue 046, October 2010, p54 [feature on Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone]
-'Filming in the wild' by Jon Boyce, Tv-bay Magazine, Issue 052, April 2011, pp 70-72 [filming a decaying elephant carcass in Tsovo National Park, Kenya for Tigress Productions using remote HD cameras]
-'Capturing the Plight of the Great Apes', Tv-bay Magazine, Issue 071, November 2012, p16 [brief feature on DPA Microphones with Craig Carter for 'The Last of the Great Apes']. |