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Secrets of the Coast - The English Sahara  (1983)

Wildscreen Film Entry, 1984

Wildlife cameraman, Mike Herd, had to wait 5 days to obtain the film sequence of a pair of shelducks leading their ducklings from the rabbit hole in which they hatched, to the safety of the estuary.This film looks at the continuing shifting environment whre plants have to survive being smothered by tons of sand and animals have to put up with desert like temperatures.

Film credits

Camera: Mike Herd
Camera: Gerry Ewens
Director: David Cobham
Dubbing: Anthony Anscombe
Editor: Jim De Wan
Executive Producer: Kevin Goldstein-Jackson
Music: Marc Wilkinson
Narrator: Sue Ingle
Producer: David Cobham
Production Organisation: TSW-Television South West Ltd
Script: Brian Jackman
Script: Sue Ingle
Sound: John Kirby
Sound: Larry Miller
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Wildscreen Film Entry, 1984
Wildscreen Film Entry, 1984