Talk:Life on Earth (TV series)

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I don't think that was David Attenboroguh's voice in the After Eight advert. I think it was someone doing an impression of him. Mintguy (T) 18:38, 15 Feb 2004 (UTC)

You may be right, Mintguy. It is possible that my recollection was tainted by the interview in which Attenborough confessed his bemusement at the moment's celebrity. -- Alan Peakall 18:25, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Attenborough doesn't mention doing an advert in his memoirs, and Google searches on various permutations of 'Attenborough, advertisement, mints' turn up nothing relevant except Wikipedia mirrors. Also, I can't find anything confirming that Attenborough was bemused by the scene's popularity; on the contrary, in Life on Air he calls it 'one of the most exciting encounters of my life' and expresses regret that more of it wasn't recorded (apparently the cameraman was running low on film). I've removed the entire passage; it should, of course, be reinstated if anyone finds sources to back up its claims. Perodicticus 19:41, 21 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Episode summaries

I have started to expand the "Episodes" section to provide original summaries, and episodes 1 through 9 are now done. In order to ensure equal coverage and consistency of presentation, I am striving to keep them all to a fixed number of lines — similar to my efforts on the Planet Earth article. I hope to add the others gradually over the next few days. Chris 42 15:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I've now added the last one. I wanted to include David Attenborough's closing words: I know it's a bit lengthy, but I couldn't distil it into anything less. I hope it's not a quote too far. Chris 42 21:14, 23 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Kudos to this guy for somehow managing to make every episode summary almost exactly 8 lines long. OCD can be beautiful. --81.152.176.94 (talk) 03:22, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Filming techniques

How the fuck do you "film in slow motion"? What the hell does that even mean? Did they ask the bat the flap its wings really slow or what, hello, ability to think??? --80.220.94.49 (talk) 11:40, 2 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

When you watch film you are seeing essentially 24 pictures per second, for TV it's 29.97 per second. I say 'essentially' because there are some other irrelevant details. You can slow down playback by displaying fewer frames per second; this is what happens when you press the slow button on your remote. When they say "film in slow motion", they are actually taking more than 24 pictures per second, so that normal playback will appear slowed down. For example if the camera took 48 pictures per second, normal playback would take twice as long, things would appear to be in slow motion. Tristanreid (talk) 04:47, 7 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I would just like to comment to the effect that I got a lot of lulz out of the above moronic and belligerent questioner. Thanks dude, though perhaps don't go out in public very often. Or ever. --81.152.176.94 (talk) 03:21, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]