Category Archives: David Uncleborough
Firebugs and Anemones
Original YT playout date: 15 April 2008
Duration: 5:01
I have made better films and photos of the firebug, which is very frequently found in Warsaw, these ones next to the Warsaw office, on the parking space paving blocks we ourselves unpacked all those years earlier.
Find out the reason for the unusual Polish common name of this insect “tramway”…
Uncle Davey’s Herts Content, #7 “Tring Museum”
Original playout date: 2 March 2008
Duration: 8:28
A nice visit to Tring Museum with family. Sophie and cousins.
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Hungary Series #3/5 “Life inside a Hungarian thistle”
Original playout date: 14 July 2007
Duration: 12:15
The conference over, I go out to visit the Hortobagy Puszta, so we see Heroes Square and the drive out east.
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RSA 8/10 Hoppy Feet
Playout date: 25 November 2006
Duration: 2:19
Camera: Panasonic DMZ -FZ30
Post Production: Windows Movie Maker – slight use
Location: Table Mountain National Park
Other people featured: David Uncleborough
Genre: Environmental
Music used: “This could be heaven” Queen
Languages used: English
Animals/plants featured: African penguin, Sphenicus demersus
Other remarks:
Another one of the videos done as “David Uncleborough” my impersonation of the narrating style of the veteran bremoaining broadcaster David Attenborough. Only whereas he tends to speak uncritically about evolution, David Uncleborough refers to it with unbelief and cynicism.
I had high hopes of developing a series of “David Uncleborough’s Life on this Planet” spoof nature documentaries but never really got to it. Maybe I will one day.
Sealy Phocas (South Africa series 4/10)
| Playout date: | 14 November 2006 |
| Camera: | Fuji Finepix |
| Post Production: | Windows Movie Maker – slight use |
| Location: | Hout Bay, Cape Town |
| Other people featured: | David Uncleborough, Afrikaaner boat captain, Viktor Dmitrievitch Huliganov, Pierre Delauney |
| Genre: | Environmental |
| Music used: | Heaven for Everyone, Queen |
| Languages used: | English, but with Russian and French words for seal. |
| Animals featured: | Arctocephalus pussilus, Cape fur seal |
I rarely do a lot of different voices on one video, but this is one occasion. I do what I hope is a passable
impersonation of David Attenborough (I called this character David Uncleborough and he comes up a couple of times in my films), and also I do a South African, some Huliganov and some Pierre Delauney.
The Hout Bay cape fur seal colony is a beautiful thing to see. This is the part of the world where the great
white shark preys on these creatures, even jumping out of the water to attack them. We didn’t see any of them today, though.
The mountains around are the twelve apostles, very majestic neighbours of the Table Mountain.
Related articles
- Wildlife up close in a sea kayak off Cape Town (reuters.com)
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- End Namibia’s Seal Hunt (our-compass.org)
- Top 7 Surf Spots in South Africa (hotelclub.com)
- Cape Town Culture (thetallandtheshortofit.wordpress.com)
- If seals have the intelligence to love us (sealalertsa.wordpress.com)
