Frozen Planet Is What HD TV Is Made For

Frozen Planet, the first Sunday on the Discovery Channel, is the kind of program that television was made for - and, more certainly, the kind that modern television was made for. This series takes us not only, quite literally, cold of the most remote places on the planet, but captures images of such majesty, art, and clarity, it is almost ridiculous. On a large screen, high definition television, watching Frozen Planet, it's like having your own personal IMAX theater.

The new technology not only affects the way we see these images, but how they were photographed. Even since the Earth was made of a few years, advances in video technology allowed film crews, armed with the latest equipment, to capture the action in unprecedented ways. There's even time-lapse photography so accurate and so carefully planned, it pans and zooms while telescopic weeks and months in less than a minute. The result is a glacier advance in slow motion like a bulldozer, crushing and moving everything in its path.

Images are fantastic. A mammoth, the protection of its application to a woman engages in a furious, bloody fight with a male encroach. And if he succeeds, he must fight again - almost every hour for several days, whenever faced with a new, determined rival. At the end, we see a dazed, bloody elephant seal obviously exhausted make his way back to his companion. He can not ask whether it was worth it all - but I'm sure was.

And that's the thing about any kind well done documentary. One thing he should do is make us cherish, and think, the beauty and value and fragility of the natural world. The other thing we should do is to make us sympathize with the natural drama of everyday survival. Television has done this very effectively, since the underwater world of Jacques Cousteau and promotion of nature presented by Walt Disney. And it is true that in many places in Frozen Planet, narration, music, narration and simple, combine to make everything feel like a much higher equivalent technology from one of these programs from Disney.

In the episode entitled "Spring", the narrator Alec Baldwin describes the efforts to build nests of some Antarctic penguins. Males, he explains, build nests of pebbles on plots of dry land, because the eggs freeze in minutes if resting on the snow or ice. And in one scene, the camera follows a male penguin, as he made ​​the long journey to find and return with a stone at a time. The camera also captures a penguin neighbor, who expects the other's back is turned and stole his rock. This happens again and again, and everything about how it's presented makes it look and sound like a comedy silent film - or a Disney classic moment ... Nature

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