JACQUES COUSTEAU: LILLIPUT IN ANTARCTICA (TV)
Summary
A special documentary following oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau on a voyage to Antarctica with six children, each chosen to represent one of the six other continents. The purpose of the excursion is to raise awareness about the global significance of Antarctica, the continent most crucial to world climate regulation. By introducing a child from each foreign continent to Antarctica, Cousteau hopes to spread the word that Antarctica should be kept free of the kind of rapacious development that has desecrated other parts of the world. The children stake a flag on the island as a symbol of the fact that they are claiming the continent and promising to defend it on behalf of future generations. Visual highlights include the reconstructed skeleton of a Blue Whale, elephant seals basking on a beach, a panoply of penguins, and a dive that explores a recent shipwreck and oil spill. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: TBS
- DATE: May 22, 1990 12:50 AM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:48:00
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:31867
- GENRE: Science/Nature; Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: Antarctic regions; Environment
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Jean-Michel Cousteau … Executive Producer
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau … Executive Producer, Narrator
- Hedwige Bienvenu … Producer
- Paula DiPerna … Writer
- Don Santee … Participant, Diver
- Jeronimo Brunner … Participant
- Cory Gillmer … Participant
- Kelly Jean Matheson … Participant
- Fumiko Matsumoto … Participant
- Elise Otzenberger … Participant
- Oko Joseph Shio … Participant