David Attenborough's new 3D documentary about King Penguins 'The Bachelor King 3D' will broadcast on New Year's Eve.
In the wilderness: filming 'The Bachelor King 3D' in South Georgia
Sir David Attenborough’s groundbreaking documentary The Bachelor King 3D is to
air on Sky 3D this New Year's Eve.
The film is shot in 3D and follows the incredible lives of King Penguins,
imagining the life of one penguin from awkward adolescent to adulthood.
It is filmed in the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia over five months.
South Georgia is a spectacular and little known island, home to majestic
albatrosses, brawling elephant seals - and six million penguins.
The Bachelor King returns to the place where he was born in search of a mate.
He meets the penguin of his dreams, and raises a family.
Comic, tragic and moving, The Bachelor King 3D is a rite of passage set on one
of the earth’s last great wildernesses.
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David Attenborough, who wrote and produced the film, said: "3D allows you
to literally step inside the King Penguin’s world."
I knew it would be mind-blowing, there are a number of extremely dramatic animals in South Georgia that would look particularly astounding in 3D. I feel hugely privileged to have started my life on 405 black and white and now to be working in 3D.”
At the screening of the film, David Attenborough defended the film's failure to mention global warming.
"If one was going to make a film about global warming, you wouldn’t pick King Penguins, because King Penguins are not badly off," he said.
"If it warms they will, without any question, move from South Georgia on to the Antarctic continent, where the conditions will suit them. And that’s the point about wildlife in really wild parts of the world – where man hasn’t already overtaken the environment – they can move and keep pace with changes in climate.
"They can’t do that in the northern hemisphere, where human beings have taken over so much of the land that it’s impossible for them to migrate across corridors."
The film will be released in giant screen cinemas around the world in 2012 and will return to Sky 3D later in the year.
I knew it would be mind-blowing, there are a number of extremely dramatic animals in South Georgia that would look particularly astounding in 3D. I feel hugely privileged to have started my life on 405 black and white and now to be working in 3D.”
At the screening of the film, David Attenborough defended the film's failure to mention global warming.
"If one was going to make a film about global warming, you wouldn’t pick King Penguins, because King Penguins are not badly off," he said.
"If it warms they will, without any question, move from South Georgia on to the Antarctic continent, where the conditions will suit them. And that’s the point about wildlife in really wild parts of the world – where man hasn’t already overtaken the environment – they can move and keep pace with changes in climate.
"They can’t do that in the northern hemisphere, where human beings have taken over so much of the land that it’s impossible for them to migrate across corridors."
The film will be released in giant screen cinemas around the world in 2012 and will return to Sky 3D later in the year.
