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National Geographic's Jane Goodall: My Life With the Chimpanzees
 
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National Geographic's Jane Goodall: My Life With the Chimpanzees (1990)
Starring: Sheila Frazier Rating
4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)


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Product Details

  • Actors: Sheila Frazier
  • Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
  • Language: English
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  • Number of tapes: 1
  • Studio: Nat'l Geographic Vid
  • VHS Release Date: January 1, 1998
  • Run Time: 60 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: 6304475187
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,274 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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This is a well-made documentary with excellent footage, a complementary musical score, and a well-organized narrative that gives viewers a full portrait of a woman who, in 1960, went alone into the heart of Africa at the age of 26 and remained there for decades studying chimpanzees.

Louis Leakey chose Goodall's vocation for her. As his secretary she did not think she had the proper qualifications to study chimps, but he knew otherwise. He sent her to Gombe National Park in Tanzania. The details of Goodall's life given in this video describe not only why Goodall chose such an unusual life but how she has been able to do it, giving the viewer a reason to care about her and in turn about the chimps.

By observing the chimp societies for three decades, she discovered that they used tools, and though she originally thought they were more gentle than humans, s