Tropical Rainforest
1992 · 38 MIN · IMDB 6.0 · 203 VOTES · DIR. Ben Shedd
Overview
The story of the evolution of tropical rain forests, their recent and rapid destruction, and the intense efforts of scientists to understand them even as they disappear. This film gives viewers a better appreciation of the importance of tropical rain forests on a global scale.
Dialogue Timeline - 199 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME - EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:09 TROPICAL RAINFOREST
00:02:02 The dinosaurs have come - and gone.
00:03:26 as tropical rainforests round the planet
00:05:22 Coming out to taste the air, the forest's creatures of the night
00:07:04 so long ago, the trees are part of the variety of many thousand
00:09:15 just marginally different from its parents.
00:10:26 All of evolution works this way.
00:12:29 feeding off the different fruits and flowers, spreading seeds and pollen
00:14:41 Individual trees may live a hundred years or more
00:15:45 Within a year or so the surface of the woven canopy has been restored.
00:17:42 and one can not exist without the other.
00:19:52 Time travelers, we've nearly reached the present day
00:22:38 to harvest forest whole, we suddenly can see the bigger picture.
00:23:19 devastating effects of rain forest burning."
00:23:49 "...make peace with ourselves. Now it is time to make peace with nature."
00:25:14 and with them the grand variety of biological diversities.
00:26:29 that's largely undisturbed.
00:27:53 plants, bugs of all kinds - live in the tropics.
00:29:44 for more than 10 years
00:30:50 these epiphytes weren't here?
00:32:16 Ground-based scientists, however agile, can not ever reach
00:33:08 of the whole forest, containing millions of different species.
00:34:57 to suit our ends. In this we are just part of evolution
28:00:00 species of plants that actually
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed199
Dialogue density5.2 lines / min
First line00:00:09
Final line28:00:00
Production Record
DirectorBen Shedd
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes203