Saturday, August 21, 2010

70s film, made as a wildlife documentary, with humourous narration?

Hello, I just wondered if anybody remembers the name of the 70s (I think) film, full of documentary style shots of various animals. The narrator is telling a story of human life, very funny in places, using the images of the animals to demonstrate each point. I seem to remember it being called something like ';beautiful people';, ';beautiful world';, ';wonderful world'; or such like. Any help much appreciated.70s film, made as a wildlife documentary, with humourous narration?
Animals are Beautiful People (1974)





http://www.amazon.com/Animals-Are-Beauti鈥?/a>70s film, made as a wildlife documentary, with humourous narration?
The movie was called BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE made by JAMIE UYS in South Africa. He also made FUNNY PEOPLE, same sort of movie - it was with a BOESMAN of the desert, the brown guys with the big stomachs. A very cute movie for the times. He was a great movie maker in South Africa in the early days. he acted in a few movies as well, i.e. LORD OOM PIET, about him being a british descendant and now being made a Lord after the death of a family member in England he never heard of. He made these movies with BOB COURTNEY, another South African wonderful movie star of the early days. The two of them made a few movies together where they were always at war - him being the Afrikaner and Bob Courtney being the British stiff-upper-lip neighbour. I was a child then and foudn it quite funny.
';Animals are Beatiful People'; it's the first film by the guy who made ';The Gods Must Be Crazy'; 1 and 2
It was called ';Animals are Beautiful People';


It was a 1974 nature documentary about the wildlife in Southern Africa.


One scene depicts various animals including baboons,elephants,giraffes and warthogs eating the fruit of the Marula tree.The animals appear to get drunk because the sugar from the fruit rapidly ferments in their stomachs.The result is very funny.
listen to steve irwin and jeff corwin

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