Oceans For Pathi: A Beautiful Looking Upcoming Nature Film
December 4th, 2009 | 
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Here at SlantedScience, we are easy to impress. Give us some high-def images of snails giving birth, or meerkats fellating each other and we’re happy. But there’s a movie currently in production which looks set to blow our minds. Oceans For Pathi looks set to become the gold standard for nature cinematography, and we can’t wait for it. Some stills from their archive to follow…
It’s been reported that the movie cost $74 million to produce, over a period of 4 years. We can believe it, given that they shot 500 hours of film, some of which were gathered using miniature remote-controlled helicopters:
We haven’t been able to locate the movie’s website as yet, but we will continue to try. In the meantime, the information we have comes from The Daily Mail. One thing is certain, though: this will be amazing, and may rival the work of a man we consider to be the god of nature broadcasting: Sir David Attenborough.
Upping the aaah! factor for a moment, here’s just one of the movie’s glorious underwater shots:
We leave you with another of the gorgeous images coming out of this movie: it’s a school of horse mackerel, captured as they form a perfect sphere during feeding. Stunning stuff.
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[...] We reported back in December 2009 that there was quite the buzz about an upcoming film called “Oceans For Pathi“. It was reported to be a mind-blowing piece of cinematography, which had taken years to make and which used novel techniques (such as remote-controlled helicopters with cameras attached) to document the oceanic world in ways never seen before. [...]