Frozen Planet Index
Dec. 29th, 2020 10:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tealinBelieve it or not, I had not to this point watched the BBC series Frozen Planet, despite having had the DVDs for several years. I still have the DVDs, but thanks to ~technological progress~ no longer have a DVD player built into my computer, and my external drive is all the way upstairs, so I checked to see if the series was on BBC iPlayer, and it was! So I have gone through and harvested all sorts of colour reference for interesting lighting conditions in icy environments, and had a little cry about missing Antarctica. Apparently when David Attenborough was a guest of the USAP he refused to be treated like a VIP and wanted to eat and hang out in the Galley like a normal person, in case you needed any further proof that he's a Good Egg. I hope he's keeping safe.
Anyway, while I was harvesting, I thought I should probably draw up an index of the show for future reference, in case I needed to look something up again. I wrote it on a piece of paper, but those have been known to get lost, and if I type it into a word document on my computer it will certainly get lost, so I'm posting it here – mostly so I can dig it up again when I need it, but also on the off chance it might be useful to someone else. Time codes are approximate but should get you roughly where you need to go.
1. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
00:00 Overview
02:19 North Pole
03:50 Migration & Breeding
05:00 Polar Bears
10:30 Sea ice melt (N), birds
12:44 Greenland - surface melt and icebergs
19:20 Tundra
20:00 Treeline
21:00 Wolves & bison
25:00 Snowflakes
26:00 Taiga
27:00 Antarctic - gentoo & sea lion
32:00 Icebergs/pack
33:00 Continent
34:00 Orcas & seals
40:00 Under ice
41:46 Erebus ice caves
44:00 Transantarctic Mountains
45:00 Dry Valleys (plus two shots of Beardmore)
46:50 Plateau
47:33 Pole
Bonus
Orcas in S. Bay near Turk's Head
Erebus team
2. SPRING
00:00 Melting
01:27 Adélies at Cape Crozier
06:08 Polar bear cubs
11:40 Melting rivers (NWT)
14:00 Arctic breakup, bears
17:30 Narwhal
20:26 Underwater Arctic
23:00 Tundra plants and animals
33:00 South Georgia
42:16 Adélies again, Ross Sea orcas (subspecies)
Bonus
Cape Crozier team
3. SUMMER
00:00 Deep ice melt
03:00 Polar bears in sea ice
09:00 Tundra
23:30 King penguins/South Georgia
33:44 Peninsula, marine life
42:45 Adélies and skuas
Bonus
Filming polar bears in Svalbard and Orcas in the Peninsula
4. AUTUMN
00:00 Polar bears, belugas
09:00 Seabirds (N)
16:00 Freezing sea ice
18:15 Tundra
29:05 S.Georgia storms
33:00 Adélies moult
41:00 Emperors
Bonus
Emperors
5. WINTER
00:00 Polar bear den
04:00 Birds (eiders)
07:20 Taiga
23:00 Polar bears again
26:30 Aurora
28:00 Emperors, Weddells
29:30 Under ice
37:00 Light returns
38:00 Emperors, again
Bonus
Wolves
The last two episodes are about the people who live in polar regions and climate change, respectively, but I got all the reference I needed off them and have little or no need to look them up again, personally, so I didn't index them. The People one does have a nice little Scott bit and calls out how much of their equipment was based on techniques northern peoples use to negotiate their environments (nice subtle callout of the critics there). It's a pity they didn't include Yakut horses in their survey of Siberian folkways, but to be fair the guillemot egg collecting was much more exciting.
I skipped through most of the northern stuff, especially the subarctic bits (I'm sorry, Canada; not this time) but it was great to get more in-depth on things like orca hunting strategy and Adélie life. Also got a few Easter eggs, like some views up the Beardmore Glacier (I had only flown down it) and a nice aerial shot of Minna Bluff, but I think my favourite was the bird's eye view of Cape Crozier, as when I was there, Mt Terror was covered in cloud:
And then another one, later in the year with lower light, where ... the clouds ... just happen to be identi... HEY.
I hope they've re-aired this series because Frozen Planet II is about to drop. There were, I think, two or three different film crews down there while I was there, getting footage for it, but as they were mostly on nights for the sake of more photogenic light and more active seals, respectively, I didn't really meet them. I can't remember if they said it would take one or two years for the series to come out, but here's hoping ...
Anyway, while I was harvesting, I thought I should probably draw up an index of the show for future reference, in case I needed to look something up again. I wrote it on a piece of paper, but those have been known to get lost, and if I type it into a word document on my computer it will certainly get lost, so I'm posting it here – mostly so I can dig it up again when I need it, but also on the off chance it might be useful to someone else. Time codes are approximate but should get you roughly where you need to go.
1. TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH
00:00 Overview
02:19 North Pole
03:50 Migration & Breeding
05:00 Polar Bears
10:30 Sea ice melt (N), birds
12:44 Greenland - surface melt and icebergs
19:20 Tundra
20:00 Treeline
21:00 Wolves & bison
25:00 Snowflakes
26:00 Taiga
27:00 Antarctic - gentoo & sea lion
32:00 Icebergs/pack
33:00 Continent
34:00 Orcas & seals
40:00 Under ice
41:46 Erebus ice caves
44:00 Transantarctic Mountains
45:00 Dry Valleys (plus two shots of Beardmore)
46:50 Plateau
47:33 Pole
Bonus
Orcas in S. Bay near Turk's Head
Erebus team
2. SPRING
00:00 Melting
01:27 Adélies at Cape Crozier
06:08 Polar bear cubs
11:40 Melting rivers (NWT)
14:00 Arctic breakup, bears
17:30 Narwhal
20:26 Underwater Arctic
23:00 Tundra plants and animals
33:00 South Georgia
42:16 Adélies again, Ross Sea orcas (subspecies)
Bonus
Cape Crozier team
3. SUMMER
00:00 Deep ice melt
03:00 Polar bears in sea ice
09:00 Tundra
23:30 King penguins/South Georgia
33:44 Peninsula, marine life
42:45 Adélies and skuas
Bonus
Filming polar bears in Svalbard and Orcas in the Peninsula
4. AUTUMN
00:00 Polar bears, belugas
09:00 Seabirds (N)
16:00 Freezing sea ice
18:15 Tundra
29:05 S.Georgia storms
33:00 Adélies moult
41:00 Emperors
Bonus
Emperors
5. WINTER
00:00 Polar bear den
04:00 Birds (eiders)
07:20 Taiga
23:00 Polar bears again
26:30 Aurora
28:00 Emperors, Weddells
29:30 Under ice
37:00 Light returns
38:00 Emperors, again
Bonus
Wolves
The last two episodes are about the people who live in polar regions and climate change, respectively, but I got all the reference I needed off them and have little or no need to look them up again, personally, so I didn't index them. The People one does have a nice little Scott bit and calls out how much of their equipment was based on techniques northern peoples use to negotiate their environments (nice subtle callout of the critics there). It's a pity they didn't include Yakut horses in their survey of Siberian folkways, but to be fair the guillemot egg collecting was much more exciting.
I skipped through most of the northern stuff, especially the subarctic bits (I'm sorry, Canada; not this time) but it was great to get more in-depth on things like orca hunting strategy and Adélie life. Also got a few Easter eggs, like some views up the Beardmore Glacier (I had only flown down it) and a nice aerial shot of Minna Bluff, but I think my favourite was the bird's eye view of Cape Crozier, as when I was there, Mt Terror was covered in cloud:
And then another one, later in the year with lower light, where ... the clouds ... just happen to be identi... HEY.
I hope they've re-aired this series because Frozen Planet II is about to drop. There were, I think, two or three different film crews down there while I was there, getting footage for it, but as they were mostly on nights for the sake of more photogenic light and more active seals, respectively, I didn't really meet them. I can't remember if they said it would take one or two years for the series to come out, but here's hoping ...
