The pulse of the earth (Planet Earth)
Recently, however, a fake news screen of a BBC documentary made netizens cry disillusionment …
A number of foreign media have revealed that the BBC’s 2011 documentary "Human Planet" is false about the treehouse tribe, and the BBC has admitted to fraud.
Guardian: BBC admitted that the tree house shot in Planet of Man was a fake: the shot of Papua New Guinea tribe building a tall tree house was actually a choreographer’s design.
Look at the report:
Viewers of the BBC’s Human Planet marvelled at the ingenuityof Papua New Guinea’s Korowai people as they built a tree house high above the ground for a tribal family to use as their new home.
People who watched BBC’s "Planet of Man" were amazed by the intelligence of the Coloway people in Papua New Guinea. They built a tree house far from the ground as the new residence of the tribal family.
Ingenuity [, nd ‘nju t]: ingenuity and originality
The episode of the acclaimeddocumentary series proceeded to show the family moving into the tree house and setting up home there, 140 feet up amid the tall canopyof the rainforest.
In this episode, this well-received documentary tells the story of the family moving into a tree house and living in a tropical rainforest with a 42-meter-high canopy.
Acclaimed: highly respected and popular
Canopy [‘k n pi]: canopy-like crown; canopy
But it has now emerged that the entire sequence was staged for the cameras, plunging the BBC into a new row over fake programmes.
However, it is now revealed that the whole clip was designed and built for camera shooting, so the BBC is caught in a new round of controversy about program fraud.
Be staged: staged; Deliberately arranged; pose somebody for the camera；stage a photo
And it was discovered by BBC own people:
The BBC said that during the making of a new documentary series for BBC2, entitled My Year With The Tribe, it emerged that the treehouse scene had been staged.
The BBC said that during the filming of a new documentary "My Year with Tribal Residents" on BBC Channel 2, the truth of shooting the tree house scene surfaced.
Will Millard, an explorer, went with the film crew to the tribe that filmed "Planet of Man" that year. The locals told him that the tree house was not "our home" at all, but "just commissioned".
In the upcoming series Will Millard is seen visiting the same Korowai tribe, when – during a trip to a treehouse – they tell him the raised houses “are not our home” and that they were “commissionedfor filming”.
In the upcoming new documentary, Will Millard visited the same Korowai tribe. On the way to the tree house, the locals told him that the houses built on high places were "not our homes" and were all "commissioned to be built and used for shooting".
Commissioned: appointed; commissioned
Millard said:
“That’s why they’re worried (about) how many people come up here and we might fall through the floor. This is not where they live, this is total artifice”.
So they are very worried that so many of us will run up and may step on the floor and fall. This is not where they live at all. It’s totally fake.
It is understood that the tree house where the local tribes actually live is actually very close to the ground.
In fact the families live in tree houses built much closer to the ground, leaving the higher ones for ritual purposes, or simply meeting places for the tribe’s teenagers.
In fact, the tree houses where tribal families live are built much closer to the ground. The tree houses in the high places are only used for holding ceremonies or where tribal children meet.
The programme also failed to make it clear to viewers that the particular tree house filmed for that episode had been erected for the benefit of the cameras.
The program also didn’t make it clear that the tree house in the episode was specially built for shooting.
When this news came out, it caused an uproar in the media, and the BBC quickly issued a statement:
The BBC has been alerted to a breach of editorial standards in an episode of Human Planet from 2011 which concerns the Korowai people of West Papua.
The BBC was informed that an episode about the Coloway people in Papua New Guinea in the 2011 documentary "Planet of Man" violated the editorial guidelines.
Breach: violation; violate
During the making of BBC Two’s upcoming documentary series My Year With The Tribe, a member of the tribe discusses how they have built very high treehouses for the benefit of overseas programme makers.
During the filming of BBC Channel 2’ s new documentary "One Year I Live with Tribal Residents", a tribesman said that they had specially built a tall tree house for overseas programs.
The BBC has reviewed a sequence in Human Planet depicting this and found that the portrayal of the tribe moving into the treehouse as a real home is not accurate.
BBC revisited the pictures describing the life of tribal people in Planet of Man, and found that the description of tribal people moving into tree houses was inaccurate.
Since this programme was broadcast in 2011, we have strengthened our mandatory training for all staff in editorial guidelines, standards and values.
Since the program was broadcast in 2011, we have strengthened the mandatory training of all our employees in editorial guidance, guidelines and values.
BBC Documentary Forgery Black History
This is not the first time that a BBC documentary has been exposed for shooting fraud. Let’s see if there are any documentary shots that have been exposed to fraud.
The polar bear of Frozen Planet.
In Frozen Planet, there is a scene in which a polar bear mother digs an ice cave and gives birth in it:
At one point, the camera follows a polar bear mother into the cave she just excavated deep into the ice.
In one scene, the camera followed the polar bear mother into an ice cave that she had just dug.
Then the camera moves into the cave, where viewers enjoyed the tender scenes of the mom and her cubs.
Then the camera also entered the ice cave, and the audience saw the warm-hearted picture of the polar bear mother and son reunion.
Cub: cub
There is no doubt that the maternal love of polar bears and the cute state of cubs instantly warm everyone’s hearts. But if you see the work photos of the creative staff, you won’t feel so …
The ice cave dug by "Mother Polar Bear" was actually created by the founder …
The scene was filmed in a zoo using fake snow. Mixing real Arctic shots with zoo scenes, documentary makers fooled the audience into believing the footage was gathered by intrepid cameramen in the brutal sub-zero wilderness.
This picture was taken in the zoo with fake snow. The pictures cut out the shots taken by the zoo and the North Pole, fooling the audience and making everyone feel that these pictures were taken by brave creative personnel in the wild environment below zero.
In reality, the den was made of plaster and wood beneath a German zoo’s polar bear enclosure. It was fitted with cameras shortly before the cubs’ birth.
In fact, this ice cave was built in a polar bear pen in a German zoo with plaster and wood, and the camera was set up before the polar bear gave birth.
"Zhao Zhongxiang, England", David attenborough, a national treasure commentator, said that it was "for the safety of the animal".
If you had tried to put a camera in the wild in a polar bear den, she would either have killed the cub or she would have killed the cameraman, one or the other.
If you really aim the camera at the polar bear’s ice cave, the polar bear will either kill the cub or kill the photographer.
"Wild Wolf" in "Human Planet"
In the documentary "Planet of Man", they found a semi-domesticated wolf because they couldn’t find any wolves to film on location.
The footage, broadcast as part of the acclaimedHuman Planet series, saw two Mongolian camel herders firing shots in the direction of the so-called wild animal as it tore across the plains of the Gobi desert before disc ussing their frustration when they failed to kill it.
In the picture of Planet of Man, two Mongolian camel herders shot at a "wild wolf" when it crossed the Gobi desert plain in a hurry, and then they sighed and missed it.
But the BBC has admitted that in fact, the semi-domesticated wolf had been let off a lead just off camera and was simply running to its handler, who was out of shot.
But then the BBC admitted that the actual shooting scene was that the semi-domesticated wolf had just been released and was running to its keeper, who was just outside the camera …
Earth’s Secret Paradise volcano.
There is a very amazing natural landscape in this documentary: when the volcano erupts, there is a magnificent lightning in the gray clouds all over the sky.
The programme purported to show a “dirty thunderstorm” above the Calbuco volcano in southern Chile, with flashes of lighting within clouds of ash.
One scene of the program is said to show lightning in the volcanic ash cloud at the top of Calbuco volcano in southern Chile.
The BBC also said on Twitter that our lightning is "gone viral".
The lightning strikes were superimposed to the ash cloud to make the footage more dramatic. The main Calbuco volcano eruption was captured by the BBC i n 2015 and the lightning shots were taken by a Chilean photographer in 2011 of a different volcano.
It turns out that lightning is superimposed on the volcanic ash cloud, which makes the picture have a dramatic effect. The volcanic eruption was photographed in 2015, and the lightning was photographed by a photographer in Chile in another volcano in 2011.
Planet Earth in 2015
In The Pulse of the Earth, there is a scene that shows the amazing snow-capped mountains from the perspective of an eagle.
But in fact, it was shot with a domesticated bird …
The amazing eagle picture in "Earth Pulse 2" is fake! The BBC showed off the adventures of photographers who parachuted from high altitude, but did not say that all the key shots were taken by an eagle named Slovak from a wildlife sanctuary.
The BBC has revealed that breathtaking Planet Earth IIfootage that appeared to show a wild golden eagle’s view of a mountainous habitat was actually fi lmed using a captive bird that lives in a wildlife sanctuary in France.
The BBC revealed that this breathtaking shot of the mountain from the eagle’s perspective was actually taken by an eagle in a wildlife reserve in France.
The tame eagle, known as Slovak, was filmed swooping over the Alps at speeds of up to 200mph – taking viewers with it via a ‘lipstick’ camera strapped to its back.
This domesticated eagle, Slovak, with a lipstick camera behind it dives in the Alps at a speed of up to 200 miles per hour, taking the audience to enjoy the exciting scenery.
I didn’t know the BBC made a documentary like this. What do you think?
Source: China Daily website April 11, 2018 at 15:23.