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

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Film Facts

A 17-minute version of the film, retitled Green Contract, was made for Expo Korea 1993.