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S14 Ep8

Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees

Premiere: 3/3/1996

One of the world's best-known animal researchers surveys the results of more than three decades of painstaking study.

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One of the world’s best known animal researchers surveys the results of more than three decades of painstaking study in JANE GOODALL’S WILD CHIMPANZEES.

When legendary scientist Jane Goodall first came to Tanzania more than 35 years ago to study the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, the vast, flourishing forest teemed with apes. Today, the park is ravaged by logging, and home to only about 40 chimps, who live confined to a few protected square miles.

But the chimp population in Gombe remains abuzz with drama and intrigue. Of the many chimps Ms. Goodall got to know when she began her studies in 1960, just one — Fifi — is alive today. And Fifi’s two eldest sons, Freud and Frodo, are now locked in a power struggle over the title of top-ranking male, a conflict that is dominating life in the community.

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Producer

RONNIE GODEANU

Art Director

SABINA DALEY

Designers

LENNY DROZNER

KAREN MATTSON

RADIK SHVARTS

Pagebuilding

BRIAN SANTALONE

Writer

CATHERINE DOLD

Production Artist

RUIYAN XU

Technical Director

BRIAN LEE

Content Consultant

GIANNA SAVOIE

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Television Credits

Producers

JOHN WATERS

GIL DOMB

Photography

JOHN WATERS

GIL DOMB

BILL WALLAUER

Sound

BILL WALLAUER

Film Editor

DAVID DICKIE

Writer

ANNE MacLEOD

Dubbing Editor

KATE HOPKINS

Music

JENNIE MUSKETT

Post Production Manager

DOMINIC WESTON

Dubbing Mixer

RICHARD CROSBY

Videotape Editor

RICHARD KNAPMAN

Assistant Editor

NIKKI REEVES

Production Team

JANICE BEATTY

TINA CLARKE

SONJA GRIMES

WILLIAM MEEHAN

MBARAKA MKWEPO

BENJAMIN URASSA

Production Executive

BARBARA STOHLMAN

Scientific Consultant

CHARLOTTE UHLENBROEK

Archive Footage

HUGO van LAWICK

Special thanks to

TANZANIA NATIONAL PARKS

THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE

DR. ANTHONY COLLINS

PETER MSUYA

HILALI MATAMA AND THE GOMBE RESEARCH TEAM

Executive Producers

HUGO van LAWICK

MICHAEL ROSENBERG

For NATURE

Executive Producer

FRED KAUFMAN

Science Editor

JANET HESS

Coordinating Producer

JANICE YOUNG

Associate Producers

JESSICA SIEGEL

CAROLINE CORNEY

Researchers

SUSANE LEE

HILDY RUBIN

Production Assistant

JILL CLARKE

Production Secretary

KEVIN DOYLE

Manager

EILEEN FRAHER

Production Manager

JOHN SCHWALLY

Videotape Editors

BARRY GLINER

KURT ENGFEHR

Audio Mix

ED CAMPBELL

Host Sequence Directed by

FRED KAUFMAN

Filmed by

ALAN DEGEN

at

FERNBANK SCIENCE CENTER

Executive Editor

GEORGE PAGE

A co-production of

Partridge Films Ltd and Thirteen/WNET New York

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