American Cinematographer - May 1988 - 84
Producers and
cinematographers in
documentary mode very often get
assigned to strange parts of the
world recording misery, danger,
weirdities, jungle predators - even
a
denizens of the American forest.
For this
particular story, these deni¬
turn out to be
beavers, whose
story lacks danger, thrills, or any of
zens
the above, but is nonetheless chal¬
lenging filming.
Jim Dutcher and Associ¬
ates of Sun
Valley, Idaho, took on
filming beaver family
life over a period of two years,
bringing about the picture, Beaver
Pond, a National Geographic Ex¬
plorer documentary to be seen this
the chore of
month
on television. Dutcher, Peter
Bricca, associate producer, and Jake
Provonsha, production assistant,
constitute the trio which
about what
can
brought
be described
as
family entertainment in the literal
sense of the
phrase.
Jim Dutcher has been
a
documentary cinematographer for
about 27 years. He started making
films
child, his first
as a
commer¬
cial efforts
being educational films,
most of them dealing with the sea underwater films. In 1984 he fin¬
ished
a
film, Water Birth, Planet
Earth for PBS and the National
Geographic Explorer series.
Out of the Water Birth film
evolved Beaver Pond. "We had done
some
work with beavers up
here in
during Water Birth we
Idaho and
learned
so
much about them
they create
-
how
pond and how all the
animals come to the pond - that
we
thought a very interesting
a
North American film would be the
story of a beaver pond," says
Two Year
Study
for Beaver Pond
Dutcher. "We started out
just that, nothing more
complicated. Ducks, moose, and of
the beaver. Then
course,
we
got to
looking at the beaver and realized
he was such a strong character that
it became
a
other animals
by Jean Turner
thinking
it would be
beaver film. All the
are
supporting cast."
"We recreated their habi¬
tat in
a
cabin here in Sun
Valley. You
can't go
out into a beaver pond and
swim in
a
you
beaver den and of course,
can't arrive there when they are
giving birth. That wouldn't hap¬
pen. So we recreated the whole
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