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Pioneer Productions' work on the series "Extreme Machines" for the Learning Channel, focused one episode on underwater disasters, and shortly into production the Russian submarine Kursk sank. Special effects manager Mandy Cohen tells how a 10-foot model of the submarine was built to re-enact the story from the inside and out, and how other special effects and underwater filming presented challenges.

Author: Shelton, Ed
Publisher: EMAP Maclaren Ltd.
Publication Name: Broadcast
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0040-2788
Year: 2001
United States, Product information, Methods, Information services, Works, Submarines, Submarine boats, Special effects (Performing arts), Kursk (Submarine), Cohen, Mandy, Pioneer Production Corp., Learning Channel Inc.

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Cicada Films' series "Safari School" combines the appeal of animals and people to bring in viewers that would not be drawn to a wildlife documentary. Director Chloe Leland portrays challenges of filming the series in South Africa such as being charged head first by an elephant that stopped just 10 yards away from the crew.

Author: Shelton, Ed
Publisher: EMAP Maclaren Ltd.
Publication Name: Broadcast
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0040-2788
Year: 2001
Column, South Africa, Animals, Leland, Chloe

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The Discovery Channel program Land of the Mammoth shows an interpretation of how mammoths must have lived. The filming of the program is described including extreme cold while in Siberia, and computer graphic-generated sequences showing the mammoths in various situations.

Author: Shelton, Ed
Publisher: EMAP Maclaren Ltd.
Publication Name: Broadcast
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0040-2788
Year: 2001
Production management, Cable Networks, Cable and other pay TV services, Cable TV Networks, Cable television broadcasting industry, Cable networks (Television), Discovery Channel-Europe

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Subjects list: United Kingdom, Statistical Data Included, Portrayals, Television production, Television production companies
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