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BBC to Show Movie Shot Entirely by Chimps
The world's first movie shot entirely by chimps is set to air tomorrow night on the BBC.
Over the course a year and a half, Betsy Herrelko introduced the chimps in Edinburgh zoo to video technology. Herrelko taught the primates how to use a touch screen to select what kind of video they like watching the most. Given the choice between watching video from outside their enclosure, inside their food preparation room, the chimps didn't really seem that bothered. The BBC cites Betsy who say's she's not sure why they didn't prefer some video clips to others. The PhD student said it could be that the images shown were too familiar to the chimps or because they have no way of asking to see something different.
The next step was to give the group of 11 chimpanzees a chimpcam; a video camera housed in a chimp-proof box. On top of this box was a display that showed live images of whatever the camera happened to be pointing at. The chimps soon became interested in the chimpcam, carrying it around their enclosure and watching the images on the viewing screen change.
NBC immediately announced they were going use chimps to replace Jay Leno.
Said an NBC spokesman, "We finally found a show cheaper to produce than Leno's"
BBC to Show Movie Shot Entirely by Chimps
The world's first movie shot entirely by chimps is set to air tomorrow night on the BBC.
Over the course a year and a half, Betsy Herrelko introduced the chimps in Edinburgh zoo to video technology. Herrelko taught the primates how to use a touch screen to select what kind of video they like watching the most. Given the choice between watching video from outside their enclosure, inside their food preparation room, the chimps didn't really seem that bothered. The BBC cites Betsy who say's she's not sure why they didn't prefer some video clips to others. The PhD student said it could be that the images shown were too familiar to the chimps or because they have no way of asking to see something different.
The next step was to give the group of 11 chimpanzees a chimpcam; a video camera housed in a chimp-proof box. On top of this box was a display that showed live images of whatever the camera happened to be pointing at. The chimps soon became interested in the chimpcam, carrying it around their enclosure and watching the images on the viewing screen change.
NBC immediately announced they were going use chimps to replace Jay Leno.
Said an NBC spokesman, "We finally found a show cheaper to produce than Leno's"
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