Travel around the world and learn more about a one-of-a-kind animal, as Lynn Sherr presents a beguiling portrait of giraffes.
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Travel around the world and learn more about a one-of-a-kind animal, as Lynn Sherr presents a beguiling portrait of giraffes.
Lynn Sherr, the award-winning correspondent for ABC TV’s 20/20 newsmagazine, went to Africa for the first time in 1973 and fell in love — with giraffes. “They were a dazzling, unexpected revelation: gawky, graceful anomalies; cool, gentle giants dressed in golden, stained-glass coats. And when they ran, they seemed to float. I was hooked.” Journey to Kenya and South Africa, and to an American zoo that is the giraffe breeding capital of the Western Hemisphere, for a revealing look at this powerful, captivating creature when Ms. Sherr hosts Tall Blondes.
Ms. Sherr, a statuesque woman with fair hair and skin, says her friends were puzzled by her choice of favorite African mammal. But, one, nodding wisely, exclaimed, “Of course. Tall blondes.” Her friend’s comment inspired the title of her book, Tall Blondes, upon which the documentary is loosely based. Ms. Sherr re-visits Giraffe Manor, outside Nairobi, Kenya, a refuge whose inhabitants include a giraffe called Lynn, in her honor. At the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs, viewers witness the birth of a giraffe, which enters the world six feet above ground. The film’s most exciting sequence involves trapping giraffes and relocating them to an African wildlife refuge. As Ms. Sherr notes, giraffes are not on any lists of endangered animals, but their habitats are shrinking as a result of human encroachment. The program helps debunk the notion that giraffes are silent by highlighting research indicating that they communicate through infrasound, not audible to the human ear.
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RONNIE GODEANU
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DAVID MALAKOFF
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About the Writer
David Malakoff is a journalist covering research discoveries and the politics of science for SCIENCE MAGAZINE in Washington, D.C. His writing has appeared in a wide range of venues, including THE ECONOMIST, THE WASHINGTON POST, and ABCNews.com.
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Television Credits
Narrated by
LYNN SHERR
Producer
KEVIN BACHAR
Written by
LYNN SHERR
Editor
LISA PALATTELLA
Cinematography
ROBERT POOLE
Additional Cinematography
KENT HARVEY
DAVID GOULDING
GINGER KATHRENS
PAUL ATKINS
Composer
RICHARD FIOCCA
Associate Producer
LISA SAMSON
Sound Recordists
BRIAN BUCKLEY
WES CAVALIER
DAVID RUDDICK
RICHARD SPRAWSON
LINCOLN TERHARK
Assistant Camera
GÉRHARD BOTHA
GABRIEL GOODENOUGH
ANNE MARIE HAMMERS
Fixers
FRANK PEROLD & SUE MILLS: PANTHERA PRODUCTIONS, JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
JEAN HARTLEY: VIEWFINDERS, NAIROBI, KENYA
VINCENT MICHAUD: ARM PRODUCTIONS, LYON, FRANCE
Assistant Editors
LAUREN KOGEN
TIM GLASSCOFF
Gaffer
LANDRY LAYSON
Makeup
GILLIAN OBASO, NAIROBI, KENYA
SUE CARY MAYER, COLORADO SPRINGS
Production Assistants
GINA POOLE
SARA SAMSON
Drivers
MACK CHAPMAN & MARSHALL HOVIES
Giraffe Transportation
JIM FAUTS
Camera Stand
RALPH PITRE
Sound Editors
BRIAN BEATRICE
ED CAMPBELL
Audio Mixer
ED CAMPBELL
On Line Editor
BARRY GLINER
Colorist
WALTER LEFLER
Additional Footage Provided By:
ABCNEWS Videosource
BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc.
Marion & David Gordon
Getty Images / The Image Bank
Granada Visual
National Geographic Film Library
Based on the book TALL BLONDES: A BOOK ABOUT GIRAFFES by Lynn Sherr
For NATURE
Series Editor
JANET HESS
Supervising Producer
JANICE YOUNG
Producers
JILL CLARKE
PATTY JACOBSON
SUSANE LEE
Associate Producer
GIANNA SAVOIE
Production Assistant
IRENE TEJARATCHI
Production Secretary
AUSTIN RIPLEY
Manager
EILEEN FRAHER
Production Manager
JULIE SCHAPIRO THORMAN
Series Producer
BILL MURPHY
Executive In Charge
WILLIAM GRANT
Executive Producer
FRED KAUFMAN
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