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Filming

Many of the filming locations CAL regularly works in are remote and far from vehicle access. Camera support systems therefore need to be light weight and adaptable without compromising camera stability. We have specialised in designing and rigging a variety of aerial systems capable of moving manned and remote cameras around at height in a safe and controlled manner.

Sometimes it is not just the cameras and operators that need to go aloft. CAL has also been responsible for the location safety at height for numerous presenters including Sir David Attenborough, Charlotte Uhlenbroek, Kate Humble and Bill Oddie.

By also offering experienced camera operation (S16mm; Digi-Beta and DV formats) we are confident that we can provide you with a cost-effective, self contained canopy-filming package.

Below: James puts Sir David Attenborough aloft in a CAL bosuns chair for a sequence on Gibbons in the BBC NHU's "Life of Mammals" series, Thailand, 2002.

Sir David Attenborough
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Above: Filming for Granada TV on "Deep Jungle" Borneo, 2004.

CAL has worked on over fifty tropical forest canopy filming shoots. Notable recent BBC Natural History Unit and Granada TV productions include:

Life BBC In Production
Planet Earth BBC 2005-06
Nature Of Britain BBC 2006
Life in the Undergrowth BBC 2005
Springwatch BBC 2005
Deep Jungle Granada 2003-04
Jungles BBC 2002-03
The Life Of Mammals BBC 2001-02
Wildlife on One BBC
Natural World BBC