Version : French
Duration : 16'
Format : 35 mm. - 16 mm. - Béta Digit. - Mpeg4
Black & white
Producer : ARMOR Films - Fred ORAIN
Country
France
Music
Léon FERRERI
Picture
Mario MARRET
Stage set
The Antarctic
With the participation of
Expéditions Polaires Françaises Paul-Emile VICTOR, Centre National de la Cinématographie
Prize list
Prix du Film de Nature - Catégorie Court-Métrage Festival de Cannes - 1954 - Diplômé au VIII° Festival International du Film - Edinburg - 1954 - Urkunde - Manneheim - 1954
Archive footage
- Emperor penguins walking in a line on the ice,
- Penguins feeding on ice,
- Love rituals between penguins,
- Males incubating their eggs and chicks,
- Chick/adult relationship and chicks playing
- Penguins sliding on the ice,
- Group of penguins in the blizzard protecting their young (image of a young chick dying in the blizzard),
- Penguins diving into the sea on an ice floe,
- Penguins on ice floes drifting in the sea.
Emperor penguins or “Aptenodytes Forsteri” live in a colony in Terre Adélie in a rockery. After the mating season, as soon as the eggs are laid, the father incubates the single egg so carefully that he loses his appetite and leaves the joys of fishing to his wife. Once the young are out of their shells, the mothers take care of them and gather them in nurseries, while the males go north, near the sea, in search of food. On his return, the male goes in search of his female and her chick. In spring, in November, the young emperors join the rockery. When the ice melts in January, on drifting blocks of ice, they head north in groups on a perilous journey.
