Serengeti Shall Not Die
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Serengeti Shall Not Die is a 1959 German documentary film written and directed by Bernhard Grzimek
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His son, the cinematographer
Michael Grzimek
, died on-location during the filming of the documentary when a plane he piloted collided with a vulture
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It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1959.
Bernhard Grzimek
Bernhard Klemens Maria Grzimek was a renowned Silesian-German zoo director, zoologist, book author, editor, and animal conservationist in postwar West-Germany.-Early years:Grzimek was born in Neisse , Upper Silesia...
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His son, the cinematographer
Cinematographer
A cinematographer is one photographing with a motion picture camera . The title is generally equivalent to director of photography , used to designate a chief over the camera and lighting crews working on a film, responsible for achieving artistic and technical decisions related to the image...
Michael Grzimek
Michael Grzimek
Michael Grzimek was a German zoologist, conservationalist and filmmaker.- Life :...
, died on-location during the filming of the documentary when a plane he piloted collided with a vulture
Vulture
Vulture is the name given to two groups of convergently evolved scavenging birds, the New World Vultures including the well-known Californian and Andean Condors, and the Old World Vultures including the birds which are seen scavenging on carcasses of dead animals on African plains...
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It won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 1959.