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IRISH
LANDSCAPE AND WILDLIFE
Going to extremes for spectacular footage applies as much at home
as it does in far off exotic locations. Having produced a number
of Irish wildife, travel and mountaineering series, Crossing the
Line Films has an extensive collection of footage from the wildest
and most beautiful places in Ireland. This collection includes spectacular
aerials of the Irish mountains and coastline, a wide array of sites
of archaeological interest from Neolithic passage tombs to monastic
beehive huts and remarkable images of Irish nature and wildlife.
This collection is truly spectacular and contains some of the most
beautiful footage and time-lapses of the Irish landscape. Timecoded
VHS compilations of Irish landscape footage are available. All material
originated on 16x9 Digibeta or HD CAM.
POLAR
COLLECTION
Our
Polar collection ranges from the icy landscapes of Antarctica to
the vast tundra expanses of North Siberia and the uncharted channels
of the Northwest passage. It includes footage of icebergs, Greenland,
Icebreakers, Northwest passage, Northeast passage, Arctic Canada
and Ellesmere Island. This collection spans different seasons and
includes wildlife footage from the Arctic and Antarctic such as
polar bears, wolves, penguins, Elephant seals and albatross, spectacular
aerials of the ice caps and icebergs and in-depth portrayals of
the life of some of the native people of the Arctic (in particular
Nenet reindeer herders of Northern Siberia and Inuit hunters of
Northern Canada). We also own a very extensive collection of old
archive film and photographs of the early days of Arctic and Antarctic
exploration. Footage shot on Digibeta 16x9 or HD CAM.
MOUNTAINEERING
COLLECTION
Crossing the Line Films has a vast collection of Mountaineering
footage with incredible scenes from the Andes to the Alps and the
Himalayas. This collection includes footage from Everest, Paldor,
the Eiger, Mount Kenya, South Georgia, Yosemite, Yellowstone, Rwanda,
Iran, Niger, Scotland and just about every mountain and hill in
Ireland.
DESERT
COLLECTION
Our Desert Collection comprises footage from the Atacama desert,
the dazzling salt flats of the Salar de Uyuni and a large collection
of footage from the Sahara. This includes Tuareg camel caravans
crossing the classic Saharan dune landscape, ancient Oasis towns
built of sand and mud and market scenes from a variety of villages
fringing the great Saharan desert.
TROPICAL
COLLECTION
From the rainforests of Indonesia to the cloud forests of Rwanda
and the tributaries of the Amazon, our Tropical Collection is rich,
vibrant and very colourful. It includes interviews with the Huitoto
tribe, meetings with Koona Indians, a variety of wildlife footage
ranging from wild Bengal Tigers to large silverback Mountain Gorillas
and a variety of footage from around the Caribbean, Central and
South America, Africa, India and Southeast Asia.
MARITIME
COLLECTION
Travelling to some of the more remote and inaccessible parts of
our planet has often involved expeditions by boat. From the 1997
South Aris expedition sailing a small open boat from Elephant Island
across the Southern Ocean to South Georgia to the 2003-2005 Northabout
circumpolar expedition through the Northwest Passage and Northeast
passage, Crossing the Line Films has amassed a huge collection Maritime
Archive. This collection comprises dramatic footage from around
the Irish coast, Greenland, Canada, Russia, Scandinavia, the Caribbean
and the Southern Ocean including violent storms at sea and magnificent
icebergs. This maritime collection also includes a variety of early
20th century footage of whaling, tall ships and WW1 battlecruisers
and U-boats.
OLD
ARCHIVE
Crossing the Line Films owns a large collection of old archive films
from around the world dating back to the early 20th century. These
include:
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WW1 footage including trenches, battlefields, Military parades,
British navy and German U-boats. |
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Footage
of early Arctic and Antarctic exploration, including the film
of Shackleton's 'Quest' expedition. |
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Whalers
and whaling footage from the 1920's |
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The1916
rising and the Irish civil war, including the shelling of the
Four Courts |
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Rural
and urban footage of Ireland in the 1930's/40's/50's. |
Keeping
ahead of the game has meant regularly upgrading our camera kit so
we are filming at all times with some of the latest and most advanced
video formats available. In 1997 we were the first Irish production
company to change over to Digital Betacam Widescreen and again were
the first to make the leap to High Definition in 2004.
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