From: John Chenger <[email protected]> List-Post: [email protected] Date: Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 12:53 PM Subject: [MAR-NSS] CBS News raw footage of WNS cave available
CBS News graciously released the raw footage from the February 2009 visit to Mt. Aeolus Cave, VT, including footage "too gruesome for television." I edited the footage into a mini documentary of sorts. In some places the dead bats on the floor are estimated at 300 per square foot. Viewer discretion advised...this is not a warm and fuzzy bat video for the kids. The camera was actually rolling as the group stumbled up to the cave (knee deep snow!) for Scott and Al's initial reaction, none of this was staged. The full version is the "Aeolus in February 2009" link on the web page. The video shows all the clips CBS took in the cave. http://www.batmanagement.com/wns/wns.html When you click the movie link, the file will start downloading. It is 112 MB in size, runs 15 minutes, and will open with QuickTime or iTunes or probably any other up to date media player. I enhanced the in-cave footage as much as I could with software I have. With all indications that WNS is about to steamroll thru the mid-atlantic states next winter, I hope to make a "last chance" effort this fall to capture some large bat swarms on HD video at mines near Pittsburgh and at Hellhole/Schoolhouse before they are gone or at least impacted. If anyone would like camera and lighting setup info details that created the BCM Shindle Iron Mine video (also on the webpage below Aeolus) just email me privately. Even further, I would be happy to overnight a camera and light to someone who wants it to document a WNS site and would be happy to edit the footage into something usable for educational/press/presentation/archive/state museum use. Time is ticking folks. Thanks, John Chenger Bat Conservation and Management, Inc. 220 Old Stone House Road Carlisle, Pennsylvania 17015 (717) 241-2228 (office and fax) (814) 442-4246 (mobile) www.batmanagement.com _______________________________________________ NMCAVER mailing list [email protected] http://caver.net/mailman/listinfo/nmcaver_caver.net --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
