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Slate describing the program. First segment introduced - Australia's Birdland

A long necked black swan flapping its white tipped wings, flying through swampy grasslands.

Pelican type birds with long beaks perched on bare tree limbs and nesting in swamp grasses and suddenly rising and flying away en masse.

Rare baby Diver birds in a reedy nest.

Unhatched bird eggs in a nest

Title cards introducing next segment - France - The Doomed Village
The story of a 900 year old village in a valley of the French Alps that had to be be permanently evacuated due to a power damn being built by the government to bring electricity to the area.

Beautiful snowy mountains in the French Alps, 5 people dressed in black walking across a small snow covered bridge. Beauty shot.

A quaint church nestled amidst snowy mountains.

Village man reading newspaper

Quaint old stone home with a snow covered roof in the village of Tignes, France

WS of a wide snowy valley with damn barely seen in bkgd. - Tignes, France

WS quaint village of Tignes in the French Alps with giant damn in bkgd.

Adorable little boy sitting on the stone ledge of a window and clinging to the iron gate.

Var shots of artifacts and valuables being moved out of the old village and loaded into trucks

WS of the village's ancient cemetery with old wooden crosses and a few head stones set in snow.

Tilt down on large damn in the French Alps

Shots of water filled valley (former village of Tignes) after floodgates from the damn buried the entire village of Tignes, now known as the Vanished Village

Title cards for next segment. Spain Marvelous Miniatures

CU hands working with tiny tools and tweezers to make miniature models. Small tools in a zippered case

Miniature detailed model of a Spanish sailing ship.
Hand picking up miniature model of a tiny fishing skip and brushing off sand with a small brush. Women in the studio looking at the details through a magnifying glass.

Two 1950's ladies looking through a magnifying glass

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