disney,original,fake footage White Wilderness - Lemming Suicide

White Wilderness - Lemming Suicide

published by aidos

1 year 8 months 4 weeks ago • 2849 views

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White Wilderness - legendary as the key source of the public myth that lemmings commit suicide in droves by jumping from cliffs. Turns out that footage was faked and the lemmings were shoved off by the crew. Poor little blighters.

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Just remembered about this whilst watching the closing credits for March of the Penguins. What did they need all those computer designers for?

written by aidos

| 1 year 8 months 4 weeks ago | CH

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According to a 1983 investigation by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation producer Brian Vallee, the lemming scenes were faked. The lemmings supposedly committing mass suicide by leaping into the ocean were actually thrown off a cliff by the Disney filmmakers. The epic "lemming migration" was staged using careful editing, tight camera angles and a few dozen lemmings running on snow covered lazy-Susan style turntable.

More here
http://www.wildlifenews.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlife_news.view_article&issue_id=6&articles_id=56

Man they say in the opening, "a nasty little rodent called the lemming"....hell they don't look nasty from here, they look plump and juicy, and their tundra-ready coats look puuuuuurrrfect for a pair of jammies and matching slippers!!!
"Wait Lemmy, don't migrate, have some fish!"

written by choggie

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They do look tasty.
I didn't now that about the footage.

written by kingmob

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I thought he said "nasty little rodent" the first time round too. I think he actually says "mousey little rodent"... though it's hard to tell, especially given the impending displays of lemming hatred