On 15 Dec 2003 12:03:10 -0800, (Malcolm Teas) wrote:

(Robert M. Gary) wrote in message . com...
(Martin Hellman) wrote in message . com...
I just noticed that the highly praised movie "Winged Migration" will
be aired on STARZ this Saturday, Dec 13 at 8:45 as well as five other
times (once more Sat then twice each on Tues and Wed of the following
week). I've scheduled it to record and thought a number of others
might appreciate knowing of this.

Someone at work suggested not letting the kids watch it because there
is a bad plane crash in the begining. Is this true? My kids love to
ride in the plane, I don't want to scare them.

There was no crash in the screen version that I saw. There were
scenes of humans hunting birds, and birds eating other birds however.

For the time that your kids do hear of an airplane crash, think of all
the times that they hear of car crashes and still ride in the car.
Not sure if it helps, but comparison is one way to understand and
manage the perception of risk.

-Malcolm Teas

I think someone is mixing up two movies. There's the one called
"Winged Migration" which is a pure nature film and follows mostly
water fowl from their summer residence to their winter home, and back
again, in breathtakingly spectacular photography.

Then there's "Fly Away Home" which is semi ficticious and is about a
guy who, with his daughter and flying in two ultralights, leads a
small flock of Canada geese from Canada to a winter home near the
Virginia/Chesapeake area. In this movie, the father has a wire snap
during the "migration" and he spirals down to a crashish type landing
and breaks his arm.

The movie was based on the inital attempt to lead geese to their
winter grounds using an ultralight. It worked. Flying with the geese
was documented in the film "C'mon Geese", which pops up in Public TV
every so often.

Corky Scott