The Year of the Wildebeest
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The Year of the Wildebeest is a nature documentary from the Survival
series shot in 1975. This documentary recorded the migration of 1.5 million ungulates through Tanzania. The cameras used in the documentary were hidden cameras inside tortoise shells to obtain images of the wildebeests thundering over them.
Survival (TV series)
Survival is one of television's longest-running and most successful nature documentary series. Originally produced by Anglia Television for ITV in the United Kingdom, it was created by Aubrey Buxton , a founder director of Anglia TV, and first broadcast in 1961...
series shot in 1975. This documentary recorded the migration of 1.5 million ungulates through Tanzania. The cameras used in the documentary were hidden cameras inside tortoise shells to obtain images of the wildebeests thundering over them.