What do You think about it?

"One million snakebites"
http://www.mytvblog.org/?p=9844

Anyone got a link to the whole documentation?

The whole documentation is available at youtube!
The most interesting thing are the slow motions captures of the striking snakes.

not longer available on YouTube because of some copyright problems.

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Cobras - breathtaking beauties!

So we have to wait until it finally will reach Austrian or German TV stations in 2043 ...
Sad

Copyright is always a problem, so a pm
There is even a law problem in Germany, posting links now.

I got it from youtube just before the troubles started haha...

It's really worth it guy's.In my opinion one of the best I've seen !

Thank you for this Guenter,

I'm downloading it at the moment, but it will take time (1.71GB).
For those who can't watch it. I found this report about Romulus Whitaker on www.hindu.com
Regards Ambros

Ambros - You download?
Did You find a working link actually?
Someone told me about a link where I can watch it, but none where I can doenload it.

Guenter,I think if you download "Real player" You will be able to download any video even if you cant do so from the site ?But I stand to be corrected...

Hmm...yes Guenter i download Embarassed

You actually posted the links..... Laughing

You just need the right program to download.

What Louis says is right. But i assume the quality wouldn't be as good as this HD version. It's really awesome.

I have this recorded on my Sky+ box. Excellent documentary.
If anyone knows how I can get it from my Sky+ box to my computer, I would be happy to upload it for everyone.

@Greg:
maybe this link can help you with your Sky+ box. LINK

I downloaded it from the link Guenter posted. (Use this link's from www.megaupload)
It seams to be realy HD quallity, but i didn't have time to watch the whole movie yet.

Thanks again Guenter, this is one of the reasons why i am nearly every day on this Forum.

Again on youtube Wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6TKFMC3ELw

Thanks!

I`ve see this a little late but I could find it. If wasn`t your topic I couldn`t search for this, so thank you too!

I`ve see the documentary and I`ve liked it, really stunning animals. I like much Whitaker`s documentaries.

At the moment I try to burn a DVD from the downloads Wink

I prefer to watch it in TV rather to PC.

I just watch the program ! very instructive (and nice snakes too). I think someone should do the same thing for Africa; i know some good works have been done there by Chippaux and al., but only in few country.....like in India this could reveal some bad results about human death by bites of venomous snakes.
R.

The DVD production worked and I've watched it right now.
Really a fine documentation.

I Loves it to, i especially likes Rom's comment about other reptile tvpersonalities handling King cobras Smile

Big difference in seeing Roms approach to the King and Austin Stevens haha

very interesting documentry, throughly enjoyed watching a snakes doco without the wanker fan fare

Thanks for the link

Cheers,
Scott

By and large, I agree with Scott. However (and without wanting to smartass here), I strongly believe that this could have been done even better - much better. For example, although king cobras certainly are a magnet for viewers, they clearly are of no medical importance in the context of snakebite as a neglected disease in India. So instead of dwelling on this (admittedly impressive) snake, the documentary could have provided, for instance, more understandable information on the activity of the venoms of the "big four" - the cobra, krait, saw-scale and Russell's vipers. In addition, it could have explained more clearly why this is a neglected disease - lack of education, superstition, and importantly, pure profit-orientation of antivenin producers.

My feeling is that a REALLY good docu on snakes and snakebite yet has to be produced.

Fantastic documentary. It's always a pleasure to see those with knowledge and skill doing what they love. I have seen several specials featuring Rom and he is always informative and compelling and always has a smile on his face.

I'll watch it. Thanks I'll be posting some comments soon. Cheers!!

Klaus Roemer wrote:

By and large, I agree with Scott. However (and without wanting to smartass here), I strongly believe that this could have been done even better - much better. For example, although king cobras certainly are a magnet for viewers, they clearly are of no medical importance in the context of snakebite as a neglected disease in India. So instead of dwelling on this (admittedly impressive) snake, the documentary could have provided, for instance, more understandable information on the activity of the venoms of the "big four" - the cobra, krait, saw-scale and Russell's vipers. In addition, it could have explained more clearly why this is a neglected disease - lack of education, superstition, and importantly, pure profit-orientation of antivenin producers.

My feeling is that a REALLY good docu on snakes and snakebite yet has to be produced.

Yes, your right Klaus, but the documentary in terms of king cobras is a snake with no medical importance in bites and they gave some plus importance to they in relation to the other snakes but is not the baddest thing, and relevant. In my opinion the really good documentary is to come but the main fault isn`t from the producers but from the people there too. The government doen`t seems to care about that and even Rom says that the results maded from the government of the snake bites are really far from the real. The superstition goes away when comes the education that suposelly should be given from their state and that unfortanelly isn`t just in India but in much 3rd world countries and in much of these cases are where much dangerous snakes thaks their life side by side with humans and where exists lack of education and medicine.
The antivenin producers just takes advantages from this circustancies and make big money with that.
The documentary just documents what passes there.
Much things have to be done there.

I think it was a good documentary, but I totally agree with Klaus, there has never been a documentary made focusing purely on the problems of snakebite. I am sure such a documentary, showing the pain and suffering that this neglected tropical disease causes in the third world, could be used as a tool to highlight the problem, not just to the general public, but also to governments around the world, who could possibly help finance recearch into producing more effective anti-venoms, better education and proper medical treatment and equipment.
Cheers,
Brian.