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A nature documentary or wildlife documentary is a genre of documentary film or series about animals, plants, or other non-human living creatures, usually concentrating on video taken in their natural habitat but also often including footage of trained and captive animals. Sometimes they are about wildlife or ecosystems in relationship to human beings. Such programmes are most frequently made for television, particularly for public broadcasting channels, but some are also made for the cinema medium. The proliferation of this genre occurred almost simultaneously alongside the production of similar television series which is distributed across the world. Robert J. Flaherty's 1922 film Nanook of the North is typically cited as the first feature-length documentary. Decades later, Walt Disney Productions pioneered the serial theatrical release of nature-documentaries with its production of the True-Life Adventures series, a collection of fourteen full length and short subject nature films from 1948 to 1960. Prominent among those were The Living Desert (1953) and The Vanishing Prairie (1954), both written and directed by James Algar. The first full-length nature-documentary films pioneering colour underwater cinematography were the Italian film Sesto Continente (The Sixth Continent) and the French film Le Monde du silence (The Silent World). Directed by Folco Quilici Sesto Continente was shot in 1952 and first exhibited to Italian audiences in 1954. The Silent World, shot in 1954 and 1955 by Jacques Cousteau and Louis Malle, was first released in 1956. In 1954, the BBC started airing Zoo Quest, featuring David Attenborough. Other early nature documentaries include Fur and Feathers shown on CBC from 1955 to 1956 and hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan., and Look, a studio-based BBC magazine-program with filmed inserts, hosted by Sir Peter Scott from 1955 to 1981. The first 50-minute weekly documentary series, The World About Us, began on BBC2 in 1967 with a color installment from the French filmmaker Haroun Tazieff, called "Volcano".

Faire rayonner Sébeillon - Reconversion de la gare de Sébeillon en une centralité artistique

Quentin Huegi

La « matière artistique », en mouvement constant dans la ville, prend possession des lieux suffisamment perméables et, par leur appropriation, en révèle les potentiels. Ces lieux rayonnent et marquent le paysage culturel lausannois. Aujourd’hui, dans un processus de saturation spatiale, la matière artistique est sans cesse rejetée vers la périphérie et le plus souvent contrainte aux occupations temporaires d’espaces en mutation. Il est donc vital pour la culture lausannoise de légitimer la présence des artistes locaux dans les futurs développements urbains. Au cœur du plateau ferroviaire de Sébeillon se situe l’ancienne gare aux marchandises d’Alexandre Sarrasin, inaugurée en 1953. Occupée temporairement jusqu’en 2029, ce projet propose une reconversion pérenne de l’ancienne gare en un lieu perméable aux artistes et aux habitants de la future centralité que deviendra Sébeillon. La valorisation de cet objet recensé s’opère par la mise en évidence de ses qualités spatiales restaurées, ainsi que par son ouverture aux habitants. Devenus territoires d’appropriation, les différents espaces qui composent l’ancienne gare sont réactivés par des interventions ciblées et mesurées. L’intérieur et l’extérieur se mélangent. Ils font coexister les différents usagers. Le symbole qu’est la halle devient espace public couvert végétalisé, prêt à renaturaliser petit à petit la friche environnante. La couronne, elle, devient interface entre la ville et la nature, entre les habitants et les artistes.

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2015 Annual Report. Life Sciences and Technology (SV): Services and Collections

Pierre Devaud

This annual report aims to establish an overview of the services offered to and activities performed for EPFL School of Life Sciences (SV) members and students by the library in 2015. It also constitutes an inventory, as at 31 December 2015, of the life sciences documentary collections available at the library

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