White Wilderness is a 1958 nature documentary produced by The Walt Disney Company . He received an Oscar in 1959 for the best documentary and the prize of the Berlin International Film Festival - the Golden Berlin Bear. The film was shot in Canada for three years. Widely known as the fabrication of the suicide myth of lemmings during mass migration. The whole migration and suicide scene was completely staged, starting with the fact that there are no lemmings populations in Alberta , so the filmmakers bought several dozen lemmings in Manitoba . Moreover, during the filming of “migration” they were pushed into the river with a broom.
| White wasteland | |
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| White wilderness | |
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| Genre | documentary |
| Producer | James algar |
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| Author script | James algar |
| In the main cast | Animals and Nature |
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| Film company | The walt disney company |
| Duration | 72 min |
| A country |  USA |
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| Year | 1958 |
| IMDb | ID 0052389 |
Generations of schoolchildren grew up on this film, which contributed to the further spread of the lemmings suicide myth [3] .
In fact, only Norwegian lemmings ( Lemmus lemmus ) are subject to periodic migrations leading to the death of rodents.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Maltin L. The Disney Films - Crown Publishing Group , 1984. - P. 148. - ISBN 978-0-517-55407-4
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052389/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast
- ↑ dfg.webmaster@alaska.gov. Lemming Suicide Myth, Alaska Department of Fish and Game . www.adfg.alaska.gov. Date of treatment June 30, 2019.