![]() ![]() Paperback rights and home video sales: the mind boggles. ![]() It's a risky but brilliant plan, a little alike marketing a story-from magazine serialization, to published interviews with the author, to appearance of the novel at bookstores, only to have the motion picture burst onto the scene some time thereafter. Then, wait to see what the home video market does. Premiere the smaller film on television a week before the larger piece open in theatres throughout the country. Then commission a smaller film about the making of the 35mm picture. A plan is attached: Shoot a film in 35mm about individual animals, their adventures, their character. Other people become interested in forming company to specialize in films about nature. The naturalist has moved from still photography into making 16mm films and one of these is blown up to 35mm and has a successful run at cinemas in Holland. Twenty years go by, and the times change: now distributors show some interest in reaching wider, more diverse public now the idea of blowing up 16mm to 35mm is at least acceptable. But still the financing road is blocked by obstacles, doubts about whether such a story could be realized. ![]() So the naturalist rethink his approach, adopts a human story to chronicle, with animals as the characters. But distributors don't believe that audiences will sit still for a full-length nature film being shown in local theatres. It's an intriguing scenario: a naturalist, talented in still photography, wants to do a 35mm motion picture in the wilds of Africa, concentrating on the animals. ![]()
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