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Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins is a 2008 television film created by Discovery Films and Oxford Scientific Films as a prequel to the Animal Planet series Meerkat Manor. A scripted documentary narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, the film details the life of a meerkat named Flower from birth to her becoming the leader of a meerkat group called the Whiskers. The film is based on the research notes of the Kalahari Meerkat Project and primarily uses wild meerkat "actors" to represent those in the story. Shot over two years at the Kuruman River Reserve in Northern Cape, South Africa, the film employed a much larger crew than the series. Some scenes were shot at a wildlife park in the United Kingdom, while others were created using camera tricks and trained film animals.

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  • Le Clan des suricates : L'aventure commence (Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins) est un film documentaire américano-britannique de et sorti en 2008. (fr)
  • Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins is a 2008 television film created by Discovery Films and Oxford Scientific Films as a prequel to the Animal Planet series Meerkat Manor. A scripted documentary narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, the film details the life of a meerkat named Flower from birth to her becoming the leader of a meerkat group called the Whiskers. The film is based on the research notes of the Kalahari Meerkat Project and primarily uses wild meerkat "actors" to represent those in the story. Shot over two years at the Kuruman River Reserve in Northern Cape, South Africa, the film employed a much larger crew than the series. Some scenes were shot at a wildlife park in the United Kingdom, while others were created using camera tricks and trained film animals. The 75-minute film premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival before its television premiere on Animal Planet on May 25, 2008. While it was praised for its cinematography, for maintaining the depth of coverage of the television series, and for its accessibility to newcomers to the series, it was criticized for not offering anything new to fans. The Kalahari Meerkat Project noted that the film was not completely accurate but praised it overall and recommended against analyzing it. Several reviewers praised Goldberg's narration, but the script was criticized as being too simplistic for adult viewers. (en)
  • Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins is een Amerikaanse documentairefilm uit 2008, gemaakt door en . De 75-minuten durende film ging in première op het Tribeca Film Festival van 2008. De televisiepremière volgde op 25 mei 2008 op Animal Planet. De film is een prequel op Meerkat Manor, en is gedurende 2 jaar tijd opgenomen in het Kuruman River Reserve op de Noord-Kaap, Zuid-Afrika. De film werd door critici aan de ene kant geprezen vanwege de cinematografie en het vasthouden van de diepgang van de televisieserie, maar anderszins bekritiseerd omdat de film weinig nieuws zou bieden aan de kijkers. (nl)
  • 《蒙哥一家的故事》(英語:Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins)是探索频道和制作的2008年电视电影,是动物星球频道《》系列的前传。本片属剧本纪录片,由琥碧·戈柏解说,从名叫“花朵”的狐獴出生开始详细介绍它如何成长为“感觉毛”家族的族长。剧本根据的研究笔记创作,用野生狐獴代指各角色。电影在南非北開普省取景,拍摄周期超过两年,聘请人员数量远超《蒙哥家族》系列。部分镜头在英国野生动物园取景,还有些是利用特殊拍摄技巧或受过训练的动物摄制。 电影全长75分钟,经2008年翠贝卡电影节首映,再于同年5月25日在动物星球频道播出。评论文章称赞本片的摄影、剧情深度及情感表现,在直面“野外生存残酷现实”的同时依然给予观众“迷人的旅程”,但批评影片与电视剧相比缺乏新内容。也有评论指出电影虽有部分细节同现实不符,但并不影响整体质量,戈柏的解说同样赢得赞誉。 (zh)
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  • DVD cover with the film title at a white scripted font at the top, followed in the center by an image of an adult female meerkat sitting upright and a young meerkat peeking out from around her chest with its head and neck visible and one paw draped over the female's paw. At the bottom a blue banner notes the film is narrated by Whoopi Goldberg. (en)
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  • John Walters (en)
  • Robin Smith (en)
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  • United States (en)
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  • Oral Norrie Ottey (en)
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  • English (en)
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  • Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins (en)
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  • Mick Kaczorowski (en)
  • Carole Tomko (en)
  • Caroline Hawkins (en)
  • Clare Birks (en)
  • Mark Wild (en)
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  • "The television series was specifically shot very low and intimate so you have a one-on-one relationship with the meerkats. We put you in their world immediately and you spend almost all your time at their eye level. But we knew to make a feature film we needed something bigger. We had to bring in bigger toys to expand it. We wanted to give everybody a sense of how big the Kalahari is." (en)
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  • —Mick Kaczorowski, Senior Executive Producer (en)
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  • Le Clan des suricates : L'aventure commence (Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins) est un film documentaire américano-britannique de et sorti en 2008. (fr)
  • Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins is een Amerikaanse documentairefilm uit 2008, gemaakt door en . De 75-minuten durende film ging in première op het Tribeca Film Festival van 2008. De televisiepremière volgde op 25 mei 2008 op Animal Planet. De film is een prequel op Meerkat Manor, en is gedurende 2 jaar tijd opgenomen in het Kuruman River Reserve op de Noord-Kaap, Zuid-Afrika. De film werd door critici aan de ene kant geprezen vanwege de cinematografie en het vasthouden van de diepgang van de televisieserie, maar anderszins bekritiseerd omdat de film weinig nieuws zou bieden aan de kijkers. (nl)
  • 《蒙哥一家的故事》(英語:Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins)是探索频道和制作的2008年电视电影,是动物星球频道《》系列的前传。本片属剧本纪录片,由琥碧·戈柏解说,从名叫“花朵”的狐獴出生开始详细介绍它如何成长为“感觉毛”家族的族长。剧本根据的研究笔记创作,用野生狐獴代指各角色。电影在南非北開普省取景,拍摄周期超过两年,聘请人员数量远超《蒙哥家族》系列。部分镜头在英国野生动物园取景,还有些是利用特殊拍摄技巧或受过训练的动物摄制。 电影全长75分钟,经2008年翠贝卡电影节首映,再于同年5月25日在动物星球频道播出。评论文章称赞本片的摄影、剧情深度及情感表现,在直面“野外生存残酷现实”的同时依然给予观众“迷人的旅程”,但批评影片与电视剧相比缺乏新内容。也有评论指出电影虽有部分细节同现实不符,但并不影响整体质量,戈柏的解说同样赢得赞誉。 (zh)
  • Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins is a 2008 television film created by Discovery Films and Oxford Scientific Films as a prequel to the Animal Planet series Meerkat Manor. A scripted documentary narrated by Whoopi Goldberg, the film details the life of a meerkat named Flower from birth to her becoming the leader of a meerkat group called the Whiskers. The film is based on the research notes of the Kalahari Meerkat Project and primarily uses wild meerkat "actors" to represent those in the story. Shot over two years at the Kuruman River Reserve in Northern Cape, South Africa, the film employed a much larger crew than the series. Some scenes were shot at a wildlife park in the United Kingdom, while others were created using camera tricks and trained film animals. (en)
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  • Le Clan des suricates : L'aventure commence (fr)
  • Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins (en)
  • Meerkat Manor: The Story Begins (nl)
  • 蒙哥一家的故事 (zh)
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