Post by Sharon Faulkner on Nov 2, 2006 14:52:43 GMT -5
Modern Day Explorers Uncover A Real-Life Jurassic Park.
What Did They Find?
November 02, 2006
Television audiences should get ready to immerse themselves in a major 2 hour television event -- The Real Lost World airing on Animal Planet and Discovery HD Theater this coming December. This is where fiction becomes fact.
This exciting true-life adventure film takes a modern team in the footsteps of 19th century explorers, whose discoveries in South America became the inspiration for countless prehistoric sci-fi fantasy books and movies. Weeks of filming with two dozen cast and crew and a team of porters took The Real Lost World team through the Amazonian swamps, down rivers, across the savannah and jungle to the top of an ancient 9200 ft. plateau. Once there, they enter a new cave system -- the oldest in the world and what they find inside, will surprise even NASA.
This is the first expedition, to get to the truth, behind the dinosaur and ape men legends that inspired the writer of the world’s greatest detective novels (Sherlock Holmes) -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- to write his classic adventure tale of people and dinosaurs. Doyle’s fantastical story, in turn, spawned some of the world’s greatest sci-fi fantasies, notably King Kong and Jurassic Park.
This high-spirited documentary tracks a journey to Mt. Roraima, Venezuela: a mountain whose evil spirits kept natives away for millennia, and whose summit eluded white explorers for some 300 years. Now a group of enthusiastic 21st century scientists, investigators and animal experts face an onslaught of deadly predators to get to the top, and along the way distill myth from reality.
Combining re-enactment footage of the 19th century British explorers and that of the modern professionals at work in the field, the film is a treat for all: adrenaline junkies will not be disappointed as giant & poisonous snakes, huge tarantulas and scads of biting, venomous insects slither and crawl across the screen…to be picked up and handled by the team.
The expedition’s astonishing discoveries deep within Roraima’s 3 billion year old caves, have garnered NASA’s attention and commitment to further investigation.
Complete Article
What Did They Find?
November 02, 2006
Television audiences should get ready to immerse themselves in a major 2 hour television event -- The Real Lost World airing on Animal Planet and Discovery HD Theater this coming December. This is where fiction becomes fact.
This exciting true-life adventure film takes a modern team in the footsteps of 19th century explorers, whose discoveries in South America became the inspiration for countless prehistoric sci-fi fantasy books and movies. Weeks of filming with two dozen cast and crew and a team of porters took The Real Lost World team through the Amazonian swamps, down rivers, across the savannah and jungle to the top of an ancient 9200 ft. plateau. Once there, they enter a new cave system -- the oldest in the world and what they find inside, will surprise even NASA.
This is the first expedition, to get to the truth, behind the dinosaur and ape men legends that inspired the writer of the world’s greatest detective novels (Sherlock Holmes) -- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle -- to write his classic adventure tale of people and dinosaurs. Doyle’s fantastical story, in turn, spawned some of the world’s greatest sci-fi fantasies, notably King Kong and Jurassic Park.
This high-spirited documentary tracks a journey to Mt. Roraima, Venezuela: a mountain whose evil spirits kept natives away for millennia, and whose summit eluded white explorers for some 300 years. Now a group of enthusiastic 21st century scientists, investigators and animal experts face an onslaught of deadly predators to get to the top, and along the way distill myth from reality.
Combining re-enactment footage of the 19th century British explorers and that of the modern professionals at work in the field, the film is a treat for all: adrenaline junkies will not be disappointed as giant & poisonous snakes, huge tarantulas and scads of biting, venomous insects slither and crawl across the screen…to be picked up and handled by the team.
The expedition’s astonishing discoveries deep within Roraima’s 3 billion year old caves, have garnered NASA’s attention and commitment to further investigation.
Complete Article
