Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
Water The Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search. Documentary about the global uses & abuses of water. Shot on location in numerous countries. Originally shot on Super 16mm. Letterboxed widescreen (more than likely 1.66:1) version.
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
Panning h/a LS dry, desolate, parched Outback of Australia. MS blanched, calcified bones, slivers of fur of dead animal on blighted earth (drought).
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
Panning LS cattle gathered around tree in Australian Outback. MS white-haired cow nibbling on barren bush. TLS/MSs two cattle ranchers herding cows into open pen.
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
Australia Rancher Donald Holt says We have a shortage of rain, but we have other advantages. There is no disease here, none whatsoever. No worms, no lice, no tick, nothing, no mad cow disease. We have no diseases.
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
MS cows clustered in holding pen.
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
LS pickup truck driving along dusty road, taking bend, kicking up silt. Australia Rancher Donald Holt wearing curved brim hat, driving door-less truck.
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
Traveling shot of bleak Australian Outback. MS/CUs Aborigine man wearing jeans and hat creating painstaking Aboriginal painting, numerous bugs buzzing about him.
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
MSs birds perched on barren tree.
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
MS/CUs Aboriginal man in contemporary clothing digging in dirt, unearthing water, cupping hands and drinking.
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
LS truck speeding along dusty Outback road. MS truck arriving at watering hole, passing cam.
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
Australia Rancher Donald Holt says Even a small rain, we can fill this dam with less than 20 ml rain will fill it; sometimes 15 ml will half fill it. It's never been dry in 20 years, even in series of bad droughts."
Water, the Drop of Life Part 6: The Endless Search
MS cattle, including white Brahmin, resting on dry red ground, chewing cud. LS Dairy Shorthorn cow walking to water, drinking.