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Garden of Eden, The |
Email This Page | | Filmmaker: Lawrence Hott and Roger Sherman |
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Price listed includes Public Performance License. |
"The worst thing that is happening to the human race is the destruction of natural habitats. In the next three decades fourteen to twenty percent of all forms of life will no longer exist. The net result of present expansion is tremendous devastation-extinction wherever you look. We can only speculate on what untouched habitats have to offer: new pesticides, antibiotics, cancer cures. Also the value to industry of naturally produced molecules is billions of dollars. Safeguarding plants and animals in their natural habitats is the simplest and cheapest way to preserve them. We owe it to our children. The time to preserve is now. Extinction is forever. We cannot wait."
The great variety of the world's plant and animal life must be safe-guarded if humankind is to continue to prosper. This beautiful and intelligent film makes clear the need for conservation to maintain economic growth, scientific investigation, and pharmaceutical research. Using humor, logic, and stunning outdoor photography, The Garden of Eden makes a clear and convincing case for the preservation of our world. Through a series of interviews and examples the film explains how environmental interests can cooperate with corporate and government developers to achieve apparently conflicting goals. Scientists, pharmacists and industry leaders examine the rationale for species preservation. They explain how the protection of habitats is the most economical way to preserve the natural diversity of our world. The film points out that this is the world we search first for new medicines, agricultural and industrial improvements and how we use hundreds of products each day that owe their existence to plants and animals. It demonstrates how we depend on our fellow species for our material welfare and ultimately for our survival. Colorful, informative and entertaining, The Garden of Eden is ideal for classroom, community groups and the general public from ages junior high through adult.
Running time: 28 min, Year released: 1985
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: 16mm,VHS
ISBN: 1-55974-195-3
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: 7th and up
Reviews: "The examples, the narration, and the skillful use of film clips and cartoons results in a strong argument for the perservation of species diversity in the only way possible -- habitat protection."
--Choice Magazine
"Because extinction is forever, environmentalists ask man to stop trampling on the needs of other creatures and to leave a rich diverse world for their descendents. A good environmental film."
--Landers Film Reviews
"Great for discussion -- raises some ideas that are relatively new and not widely known."
--EFLA Evaluations
Other Credits: A Production of the Nature Conservancy, Florentine Films
Produced and Directed by Lawrence R. Hott and Roger Sherman |
 Academy Award Nomination, Best Documentary Short/ Blue Ribbon Winner, 1986 American Film Festival
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This title can also be found in: Academy Award Nominees, American Film Festival Award Winners, Animals & Animal Rights, Biology & Biologists, Ecology, Environmental, Florentine Films -- films by, Nature, Pollution, Rain Forests, Wilderness, Wildlife |
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