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BBC's Planet Earth - Grand Canyon

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I was watching the "Fresh Water" episode (#3) of Planet Earth last night and saw something I hadn't noticed before.

As it talks about "Grand Canyon", all the video footage is from the Little Colorado River Gorge. Presumably because the NPS wouldn't give them a permit to fly in the park. But interesting that Sir David Attenborough doesn't mention that.

In fact it's over a minute and a half into it before the actual Colorado River is shown.

Then the most comical thing in the entire segment ... the imagery that accompanies SDA saying "this river cut the planet's largest canyon system ... a 1000-mile scar clearly visible from space".

Only Grand Canyon has never looked like that from space. Or anywhere else. :lol:
(1:32-->1:45)

Makes you wonder what other things in the series take this level of creative license!

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Re: BBC's Planet Earth - Grand Canyon

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I think I saw that awhile ago, it seems like they wrote it for the Grand Canyon but could only get film of the LCR to pad the shots they got from the Rez side of the canyon. It is really confusing if you know that the camera doesn't line up with the story, but it's likely 99.9% of people don't know the difference. I think they squeeze some shots in of Havasupai somewhere as well, or maybe my memory is bad.
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I took the liberty of labeling landmarks on a screenshot. Good stuff to reflect on for a while. :-k
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:lol: ](*,)
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chumley wrote:I took the liberty of labeling landmarks on a screenshot. Good stuff to reflect on for a while.
Flipped/mirrored the image. Oops ...
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