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C'mon Geese



A maverick sculptor imprints baby goslings to follow his homemade ultra-light airplane as if it were their mother, and in so doing he gets the flock of geese to fly alongside him, where he can film them. Hollywood turned this true story into the family movie Fly Away, and the great documentary Winged Migration borrowed the same technique for other wild birds. But this is the original low-rent documentary made by the Canadian artist himself, wherein he films his journey of invention, with its many dead-ends, failures and ingenious solutions. You get the raw energy and details of an artist at work. It's an engaging tale, a brilliant achievement, and a marvelous act of imagination.

-- KK

C'mon Geese
Directed by Bill Lishman
1989, 28 min.
$15, VHS

Available from Operation Migration, a non-profit organization co-founded by Bill Lishman

Distributed by and also available from Bullfrog Films

Posted on July 19, 2006 at 5:00 AM | Comments (2)



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Wow, it's amazing!! x (from a girl in Scotland!) x

Posted by Tracy on December 30, 2009 at 9:05 AM

I have seen the movie "Fly Away Home" several times and am fascinated with the whole idea of migratory birds following ultralights. Congratulations on Bill Lishman's imagination, fortitude and success with the initial aspect of this project.

Posted by Donna M. Wheeler on January 10, 2010 at 12:52 PM


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