Animals *WERE* harmed during the making of this film
http://www.snopes.com/disney/films/lemmings.htm
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"They put the critters on a huge, snow-covered "Lazy Susan" turntable and spun it, then filmed from various angles as the critters ran, fell and slid into each other. This pretty much made it look like a "migration" sequence showing a bunch of spinning, running, sliding lemmings. Afterwards, instead of just letting the things go with a few $ and some Mickey Mouse ears, they were all taken to where there was a cliff overlooking a river and herded over the edge, down into the water, where they drowned. And were filmed. Cut and Wrap! Disney got his footage and the myth of the Lemming Hurling Off Cliffs To Commit Suicide was born.
source: http://www.anomalies-unlimited.com/Lemmings.html
wow...and they called this a documentary? Great example for children
About the harming of animals, I don't know if there was a law back then for it, but i would think so.
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.~ Carl Sagan
you guys, its not true. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761564834/Lemming.html
also, there aren't too many inuit in manitoba, most natives there are metis. Also, there are lemmings in northern alberta. now, they crew may have duplicated the events because they are so infrequent, but they didnt make up the rumor about the suicide, that actually happens.
Nobody is denying that some Lemming Species migrate, and die during migration (which is what your link shows).
But they do NOT commit suicide, and this film was a fraud!
Fnck Disney
here's what wikipedia says
"Lemming populations go through rapid growths and subsequent crashes that have achieved an almost legendary status, largely because of the Walt Disney Pictures film, White Wilderness, which was produced in 1958 and reappeared on television at regular intervals for many years afterwards. White Wilderness popularized, using staged footage, the myth that during population booms Norway Lemmings become suicidal and leap en masse off cliffs into the sea. For this reason, the term "lemming" is often used in slang to denote those who mindlessly follow the crowd, even if destruction is the result.
In fact, the behavior of lemmings is much the same as that of many other rodents which have periodic population booms and then disperse in all directions, seeking the food and shelter that their natural habitat cannot provide. (The Australian Long-haired Rat is one example.) The actual reason for their 'suicide' deaths is because these mass migrations may last many months and the lemmings become too tired to avoid cliff edges or swim when they normally could."
That rug really tied the room together.
Ha ha. It's funny when the Disney Corporation pushes small, furry
animals off a cliff for the amusement of children. Hooray!
The thruth is that many animal documentary are frauds, with staged events to make it more exciting. Also, animals are often harmed in these "documentaries".
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" It is in dying, that we awake to eternal life "- John Rambo
I just think it's awful and disgusting what they did to those poor creatures. They never should have killed them just for the sake of a documentary. It just really upsets me. GOD Bless the poor things.
shareTo be fair many or most of them survived. I watched the footage on youtube, and most of them swam to the shore. Don't get me wrong..it was wrong and incredibly evil, and they probably thought they WOULD all die, but still.
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Escape from the Planet of the Apes - 9/10
Look at Blackfish. One sided and twisted facts.
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what did you argue about?
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