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The Elephant, The Emperor and the Butterfly Tree
Director: Sean Morris
Producer: Mark Strickson
Running Time: 50 minutes
UK 2003
One of the Strangest stories ever filmed in Africa involved humans, and the continent’s largest and smallest creatures. It is four inches long, spiny and it lives in trees. Would you eat it? Thousands of people in Botswana and South Africa do.
 

This film is about a place where the elephants do the landscaping, but an animal millions of times smaller has an impact on the people and wild animals out of all proportion to its size. The Mopane Veldt of Southern Africa is home to a rich diversity of animals, a charming people and it is the provider of one of the strangest harvests on earth.

Mark Strickson is a director of Oxford Scientific Films and has worked on many high profile productions for Broadcast Television.

Sean Morris is the founding director of Oxford Scientific Films. He is a world renowned specialist wildlife cameraman, director and producer. His credits include the award winning classics: Sexual encounters Of The Floral Kind; Deathtrap; The Eagle; and The Snake; Peak Performance (1995) is a series of six half hour programmes for ITV looking at the world of sports using ultra-high-speed filming and motion analysis. Sean’s Sonoran Desert won an International Emmy for Individual Achievement and Cinematography (News and Documentary Programming).

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