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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsOld enough to remember Disney's True Life Adventure movies. One about elk on youtube
I thought there were some that don't appear on wikipedia list. Just a hazy memory
We kids looked forward to them,
exboyfil
(17,857 posts)where they used a turn table to simulate lemmings mindlessly jumping to their deaths. Scarred a generation of school children.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/white-wilderness/
The filmmakers had to import lemmings to Alberta for use in the documentary (reportedly by purchasing them from Inuit children who had caught them in other provinces); through the use of carefully controlled camera angles and tight editing, the filmmakers made no more than a few dozen lemmings look like a much larger number, placing them on turntables to create a frenzied migration effect and then herding them off a cliff and into the water (which was actually the Bow River, not an Arctic sea).
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)hunter
(38,264 posts)It was a very prestigious job.
Cleaning the chalk board erasers with the electric machine, supervised by the custodian, was another one.
I was also a Junior Fire Captain.
My teachers (and later my professors in college...) worked so diligently to keep me out of trouble but they were largely unsuccessful.