The Secret of Life on Earth begins where life apparently began three-and-a-half billion years ago. The film shows some of the key developments in plants that made possible the web of life. Micro, macro, and time-lapse photography delivers close-ups of special relationships between plants and animals: barnacles feeding, microscopic plankton, tiny grasses flowering, and pollinators at work. The interdependence between plants and animals is portrayed as an unwritten “green” contract.”
Length: 40:00
Film Details
- Year Released: 1992
- Date Released: 1992
- Alternate Titles: The Green Contract
- Status: Inactive
- 3D: No
- Run Time: 31-50
- Formats: 15/70
- Distributor:
IMAX Corporation
- Produced By: Presented by the IMAX Natural Film Unit.
- Executive Producer: Christopher Parsons
- Producer: Christopher Parsons
- Director: Adrian Warren
- Associate Producer:
- Writer: Desmond Hawkins
- Cinematography: David Douglas (DOP), Tim Housel (DOP), Peter Parks (Director of Special Photography)
- Sound Editor:
- Visual Effects:
- Music/Score: Jennie Muskett
- Editor:
- Narrator: Patrick Stewart
- Other Credits:
- Sponsors: Ssangyong Business Group.
Genre
- Documentary
- Ecology
- Nature
Website
Awards
Film Facts
A 17-minute version of the film, retitled Green Contract, was made for Expo Korea 1993.
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