Essential Fire

Australia, 1990

TV show
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Episode number 3 of Series “Under southern skies”.
Fire is the generative force that has been essential in the development of Australia’s unique flora. Botanist Ian Telford reveals the resilience and ingenious adaptability of eucalypts after fire, when dormant buds protected by thick bark shoot out and seeds cracked open by heat, germinate. Even from the most severe destruction of fire, new life emerges on this continent. Presented by Ruth Hanckel.

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Credits

director

Michael Edols

producer

Mark Falzon

production company

Central Coast Media

Duration

00:23:00:00

Production places
Australia
Production dates
1990

Appears in

Under southern skies

Group of items

Under southern skies

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302581

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Television

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Eucalyptus

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Fire ecology

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Natural history

Documentary

Documentary → Documentary films - Australia

Television

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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