Thursday, 6 February 2014

A video clip of A Blank On the Map, from Youtube.

Monday, 3 February 2014

Lets start with one of his first documentarys called A Blank on the Map, 1971. The production was set around the Highlands of New Guinea. The natives that lived there and the land they lived on had never had contact with Europeans before. Using aerial map Daivd, Laurie Bragg ( a govenment officail ) and a team of 101 antional police marched through the jungles to areas with less foliage in the hope they would find farms made by the natives. The party had no luck in finding any natives, although they found a substantial amound of evidence protaining to thier existance. Luckily days before they were planing to go home they, the natives emrged from the forest. Very little was known about the natvies that lived there, the only piece of information they had to go by on was the name the natives called themsevlves. After calling the name of the natives. The next morning a group of men appiered. The two parties met and tried to comunicate to the best of their abilitie, and they even began to trade with one and other. They recieved taro and bananas from the natives and were suprised that items such as newspaper and beads were not as valuable to them, compared to other tribes within the area. However the tribes men did accept salt. Then Bragg asked if they could come to the natives village. After the proposal David Attenborough, Braggs and one cameraman they followed three natives into the jungle, but some how the group lost each other in the jungle, and the natives were never seen again.

Monday, 20 January 2014

Just in case you don't know who I'm talking about this is a picture of yours truly. 
     Sir David Frederick Attenborough, was born in Isleworth, London on the 8th of May, 1926.
He is a Broadcaster and a Naturalist. He has been described as "the face and voice of natural history programmes for 60 years". He went to school in Wyggeston grammer school, then in 1945 he then recived a scholarship to Clare college in Cambridge University. He got a degree in Natural Scinece and studies zoology and geology. He served in the Royal Navy two years later. In 1950 he married Jane Elizabeth Edsworth Oriel. That same year he applied for a job in the BBC and he has been there ever since.

Thursday, 16 January 2014

Hello, ciber world My name Sian, and on this blog I'll be talking about David Attenborough, where he has been in the world, and what he has seen.