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Serengeti Shall Not Die

Serengeti Shall Not Die

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jun 25, 1959

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

58%

Original Title

Serengeti darf nicht sterben

Production Companies

Okapia-Film Productions, Asta Motion Pictures

Director

Bernhard Grzimek

Description

The film tells of the beginnings of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. At the end of the 1950s, the Tanzanian National Park Administration wanted to fence in the protected area around the Ngorongoro Crater. Bernhard and Michael Grzimek were invited by the national park administration in 1957 to get a precise picture of the animal migrations and to provide the national park administration with the values ​​they needed for their project. Using a new counting method with two airplanes, the Grzimeks found out that the migration of the herds was different than assumed.