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Reel opens - California's Nature Conservancy
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| 01:00:02 2.49 |
Countdown
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| 01:00:10 10.87 |
Clouds in the sky and waves crashing to shore along the Pacific coast of California. WS of the rocky coastline.
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| 01:00:18 18.91 |
Beauty shots of the fragile environment of "coastal dunes" created by the waves and wind. Narrator unseen explains how along the coastal shores of California, these dunes are nearly gone.
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| 01:00:32 32.24 |
More beauty shots of the diverse nature in California - reeds growing through glistening water, a strange succulent plant, hawk flying.
Narrator unseen talking about the intrusion of population and industry threatening the natural systems. |
| 01:00:41 41.19 |
Pan out from the large pieces of drift wood dotting the sand and the coastal dunes that are in danger of disappearing
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| 01:00:58 58.25 |
Red sign posted in the dunes "Patrolled Area No Trespassing without Written Permission". Unseen narration about how in 1979 a group, "The Nature Conservancy" launched a campaign to privately buy California's critical areas.
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| 01:01:04 64.64 |
Talking head male Director from the Conservancy explains to unseen narrator the reasons why they were interested in conserving the rare and endangered environments.
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| 01:01:19 79.93 |
WS of a hilly sandy area off the coast, water puddled there from the ocean.
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| 01:01:28 88.43 |
Digital images of the state of California, clicking of keyboard is heard, as Critical Areas (in danger of disappearing or being destroyed) light up in circles all over the map.
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| 01:01:32 92.82 |
Talking head male sitting at a "PDP-11/70" computer
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| 01:01:44 104.69 |
CU hand with painted fingernails typing on a computer keyboard. Pan out from keyboard to young woman sitting at a draft board desk typing and looking at two computer screens.
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| 01:01:47 107.36 |
CU roller on a computer map printer with a printout of circles on a map that indicate where the rare plants and animals are spotted (Critical Areas) in the State of California.
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| 01:01:54 114.05 |
CU a poster on the wall of a field of yellow wildflowers. Pan out from the poster to a workroom with folk from the Nature Conservancy studying printouts of geology maps spread out on draft table.
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| 01:02:01 121.05 |
CU hand holding a mechanical pencil and plastic ruler with holes (drawing the targets on maps of the critical areas in California)
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| 01:02:05 125.45 |
Man walking down sandy path. Unseen narrator explains how this man, Daryl Christensen, has seen much damage to the dunes on his land. He decided to protect the land his own way, by patrolling them with a shotgun.
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| 01:02:17 137.23 |
WS of off-road vehicle tire tracks in the sand - evidence of the damage they can cause to the fragile landscape
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| 01:02:21 141.07 |
Var shots of driftwood and vegetation in the sand dunes.
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| 01:02:43 163.98 |
Pan the dunes as unseen narrator explains the Nature Conservancy purchased the land and created the first preserve in the California Critical Areas Program.
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| 01:02:58 178.2 |
Young woman from the Conservancy walking along the dunes, stops kneels down and points out a rare and endangered yellow plant in California, "Mindy's Wallflower.. Pan in to CU of the flowering plant.
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| 01:03:25 205.19 |
Educator, Professor John Sawyer from Humboldt State University with his students out on the beach walking along a ridge.
CU on Sayer. He states to unseen interviewer that its more instructive and direct to look at areas where the natural processes go on rather than areas that have been impacted by people. |
| 01:03:56 236.42 |
Pan out from WS of pristine sand dune with some vegetation
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| 01:04:05 245.18 |
Pan incredibly untouched wide span of sand dunes. CU of pristine sand from the dunes
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| 01:04:23 263.85 |
Film ends with a montage of beauty shots of the pristine sand dunes, drift wood partially covered in sand, panorama of the dunes, shadows in the sand, some trees still growing, sundown
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| 01:14:46 886.59 |
Reel end.
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Year: 2000
Color: Color
Genre: NATURE
Specialty CollectionGenre: NATURE
Description: California's Nature Conservancy in 1979 a group, "The Nature Conservancy" launched a campaign to privately buy California's critical areas and protect them from destruction.
Keywords: endangered
