Movie, "Winged Migration" on STARZ this Sat

[Martin Hellman]

I just noticed that the highly praised movie "Winged Migration" will
be aired on STARZ this Saturday, Dec 13 at 8:45 as well as five other
times (once more Sat then twice each on Tues and Wed of the following
week). I've scheduled it to record and thought a number of others
might appreciate knowing of this.

Enjoy.

Martin

[Corky Scott]

Post by Martin Hellman
I just noticed that the highly praised movie "Winged Migration" will
be aired on STARZ this Saturday, Dec 13 at 8:45 as well as five other
times (once more Sat then twice each on Tues and Wed of the following
week). I've scheduled it to record and thought a number of others
might appreciate knowing of this.
Enjoy.
Martin

I've seen it on the big screen, it's a phenominal movie.

Corky Scott

[Robert M. Gary]

Post by Martin Hellman
I just noticed that the highly praised movie "Winged Migration" will
be aired on STARZ this Saturday, Dec 13 at 8:45 as well as five other
times (once more Sat then twice each on Tues and Wed of the following
week). I've scheduled it to record and thought a number of others
might appreciate knowing of this.

Someone at work suggested not letting the kids watch it because there
is a bad plane crash in the begining. Is this true? My kids love to
ride in the plane, I don't want to scare them.

[Marc Ramsey]

Post by Robert M. Gary
Someone at work suggested not letting the kids watch it because there
is a bad plane crash in the begining. Is this true? My kids love to
ride in the plane, I don't want to scare them.

As I remember it, an ultralight crashes at fairly slow speed into water,
no one is hurt (and I think it was in the "Making of...", not the actual
movie). What would have gotten to my kid (had she not been thoroughly
bored by this point) was a scene toward the end where an albatross pulls
a cute penguin chick away its parents, and starts feasting on it...

Marc

[Teacherjh]

As I remember it, an ultralight crashes at fairly slow speed into water,
no one is hurt (and I think it was in the "Making of...", not the actual
movie).
<<

I saw the movie in a theater. Nothing crashed.

Jose

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[Malcolm Teas]

Post by Robert M. Gary

Post by Martin Hellman
I just noticed that the highly praised movie "Winged Migration" will
be aired on STARZ this Saturday, Dec 13 at 8:45 as well as five other
times (once more Sat then twice each on Tues and Wed of the following
week). I've scheduled it to record and thought a number of others
might appreciate knowing of this.

Someone at work suggested not letting the kids watch it because there
is a bad plane crash in the begining. Is this true? My kids love to
ride in the plane, I don't want to scare them.

There was no crash in the screen version that I saw. There were
scenes of humans hunting birds, and birds eating other birds however.

For the time that your kids do hear of an airplane crash, think of all
the times that they hear of car crashes and still ride in the car.
Not sure if it helps, but comparison is one way to understand and
manage the perception of risk.

-Malcolm Teas

[Corky Scott]

Post by Malcolm Teas

Post by Robert M. Gary

Post by Martin Hellman
I just noticed that the highly praised movie "Winged Migration" will
be aired on STARZ this Saturday, Dec 13 at 8:45 as well as five other
times (once more Sat then twice each on Tues and Wed of the following
week). I've scheduled it to record and thought a number of others
might appreciate knowing of this.

Someone at work suggested not letting the kids watch it because there
is a bad plane crash in the begining. Is this true? My kids love to
ride in the plane, I don't want to scare them.

There was no crash in the screen version that I saw. There were
scenes of humans hunting birds, and birds eating other birds however.
For the time that your kids do hear of an airplane crash, think of all
the times that they hear of car crashes and still ride in the car.
Not sure if it helps, but comparison is one way to understand and
manage the perception of risk.
-Malcolm Teas

I think someone is mixing up two movies. There's the one called
"Winged Migration" which is a pure nature film and follows mostly
water fowl from their summer residence to their winter home, and back
again, in breathtakingly spectacular photography.

Then there's "Fly Away Home" which is semi ficticious and is about a
guy who, with his daughter and flying in two ultralights, leads a
small flock of Canada geese from Canada to a winter home near the
Virginia/Chesapeake area. In this movie, the father has a wire snap
during the "migration" and he spirals down to a crashish type landing
and breaks his arm.

The movie was based on the inital attempt to lead geese to their
winter grounds using an ultralight. It worked. Flying with the geese
was documented in the film "C'mon Geese", which pops up in Public TV
every so often.

Corky Scott

[d***@nbnet.nb.ca]

That film was loosly based on the true story of Bill Lishman (sp) -
known as "Father Goose"

He DID successfully train a family of Canada Geese to
follow his microlight and successfully "taught" them to migrate in
the absence of the parents..

Heck of a story..

AMAZING close up flight shots of the birds..

If only we could fly as well.....

Dave

Post by Corky Scott
Then there's "Fly Away Home" which is semi ficticious and is about a
guy who, with his daughter and flying in two ultralights, leads a
small flock of Canada geese from Canada to a winter home near the
Virginia/Chesapeake area. In this movie, the father has a wire snap
during the "migration" and he spirals down to a crashish type landing
and breaks his arm.
The movie was based on the inital attempt to lead geese to their
winter grounds using an ultralight. It worked. Flying with the geese
was documented in the film "C'mon Geese", which pops up in Public TV
every so often.
Corky Scott

[TooPlaneCrazy7]

The crash you guys are talking about is probably "Fly Away Home" which was
about a girl who built a glider to soar with the birds.

She crashed and died.

[Montblack]

("TooPlaneCrazy7" wrote)

Post by TooPlaneCrazy7
The crash you guys are talking about is probably "Fly Away Home" which was
about a girl who built a glider to soar with the birds.
She crashed and died.

Um, first rule in making a kid's movie - Don't kill Bambi.

Bambi's mom, however .....

[Saryon]

Post by TooPlaneCrazy7
The crash you guys are talking about is probably "Fly Away Home" which was
about a girl who built a glider to soar with the birds.
She crashed and died.

That's the one with Jeff Daniels and Anna Paquin, right? In that one
the craft was a microlight, basic plot is that she escorted the geese
from Canada to their migration fields somewhere in the southeren US,
and the ultra-happy-ending was that they made it safely (even though
her father, also flying along in a microlight crashed a couple of
hours short and broke his arm), they saved the field where they were
migrating to from the evil-doer builders who were just in the process
of firing up the bulldozers, and the geese even managed to make their
way back to her house in the following spring. I don't recall her or
him dying in the movie. Course, the whole thing that sets her up to
be living with estranged Dad is that she survives a car crash that her
mother doesn't. But I digress...

[sandpebble]

This site has a downloadable theatrical trailer for the movie:
http://www.ultimatedvd.org/nl/Trailers/Details.aspx?Trailer_Id=900
The high resolution Quicktime file is 17.4MB, and the clip is two minutes long.
Sandpebble

[Ulrich Neumann]

Post by sandpebble
http://www.ultimatedvd.org/nl/Trailers/Details.aspx?Trailer_Id=900
The high resolution Quicktime file is 17.4MB, and the clip is two minutes long.
Sandpebble

The movie is out for rental at "Hollywood Movies". I watched the movie
and the 'making of' part and can't decide which one is better. Awsome
footage!
There is one scene in the 'making of' part, where a couple of geese
fly off the wing tips of an ultra-light. The first goose off the left
wing tip is not flapping it's wings and seems to be flying with a
smaller a.o.a. while keeping up with the ultra-light. (No, it was not
one of the decoys!) I guess it is a good illustration of what is going
on aerodynamically just off the wing tip. One would hope that the wing
tip vortex on a modern glider is less severe.

U. Neumann

[L.D.Cosby]

There is an excellent web site dedicated to the migration of Whopping Cranes
and Canadian Geese www.operationmigration.org .
They make an annual trek across the USA from Canada to Florida to teach
hatchlings the migration habit.

Happy Holidays
Larry

Post by Martin Hellman
I just noticed that the highly praised movie "Winged Migration" will
be aired on STARZ this Saturday, Dec 13 at 8:45 as well as five other
times (once more Sat then twice each on Tues and Wed of the following
week). I've scheduled it to record and thought a number of others
might appreciate knowing of this.
Enjoy.
Martin

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Post by L.D.Cosby
There is an excellent web site dedicated to the migration of Whopping Cranes
and Canadian Geese

They must be really, reeeeally big cranes. I'd hate to be standing underneath
when they migrate overhead... :-)

And, BTW, any Minnesotan will tell you they're Canada geese. Can't call 'em
Canadian unless you've checked their visas...