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Eugene Shoemaker ( full name Joseph Robert Eugene Shoemaker ) (* August 4, 1906 in Stuttgart, † January 8, 1973 in Munich) was a zoologist and animal film pioneer. In addition to Heinz Sielmann and Bernhard Grzimek he is one of the most prominent animal filmmakers Germany. As early as 1952 he made the movie audience with his film nature in danger on the destruction of the animal world's attention by the people. His film The last paradise is one of the masterpieces of nature and wildlife film.

Career

Shoemaker 's film career began with short and educational films, but he turned since the 1930s in South America also about the local wildlife. In the following 40 years, he created highly successful cinema documentaries that have been awarded, among others, at the International Film Festival in Cannes and Venice. Shoemaker documentation in the shadow of the Karakoram about the culture and wildlife of the Himalayas received the 1955 German Film Award ( Film Award ) in the category of Outstanding culture film.

As of 1958, 37 episodes of the TV series turned " On the trail of rare animals ," which ran successfully in the third television program ARD 1964-1972.

On January 8, 1973 Eugene Shoemaker died at the age of 66 years to cancer. He is buried in the Woodland Cemetery in Grünwald near Munich. The success of his last film in Europe paradises he did not live. For this film, he spent two years traveling and filming, inter alia, marine birds on the holm Norderoog, the Spanish imperial eagle in the National Park Coto de Doñana in Spain, bison in the Białowieża National Park between Poland and Belarus and the last Asian population of the forest Rapp in Birecik ( Turkey).

2001, it became the 16th International Documentary Film Festival Munich in the series The animal in sight a program of his works.

Pioneering work for the World Conservation

In the spring of 1959, the filming of the last paradises, a commissioned work by the IUCN. This film is one of the longest and most ambitious projects in the field of animal film. Seven years had shoemaker and his cameraman Helmuth Barth in over 60 countries on the road to film the then most endangered species in the world. The result is an alarming report about the threat to wildlife and their habitats, which impresses with unique shots. Production costs amounted to over one million DM on February 28, 1967, the film was released in Germany and was enthusiastically received both by the audience as well as critics. The book of the same name was also a worldwide success and was translated into several languages ​​, including in:

  • USA: The Last Paradises: On the track of rare animals, Doubleday & Co, Inc. New York
  • England: The Last of the Wild: On the track of rare animals ( with Gwynne Vevers; Winwood Reade ), Collins, London, 1968
  • Italy: Gli Ultimi Paradisi, Garzanti, MI, 1966
  • Slovenia (then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ): Nedotaknjene divjine: Po sledeh redkih zivali ( with Prevedla Nada Vukelic '), Ljubljana: Drzavna žaloba Slovenije 1969
  • Finland: Viimeiset paratiisit: Harvinaisten eläinten jäljillä ( with Heikki Väänänen ), Porvoossa: W. Söderström, 1968
  • Netherlands: De laatste paradijzen - Speurtocht naar zeldzame explode ( MEA Thijssen - van den Bosch), Wageningen Zomer & Keuning, 1967
  • Hungary: Az utolsó éden

Works

Movies

Short and educational films

Feature Films

TV

Awards selection

Others

His first camera - a " Bell and Howell - hand camera " model Eyemo - acquired shoemaker 1931 1932 he married Maria Eder. . 1934, daughter Anne Marie was born, the editor of his films later. In 1955 he joined the staff at Bayerischer Rundfunk and produced over 100 shows.

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