National Geographic's Helpful Bird: Anchor Treats Stock Footage Like Game Tape
Helpful bird behavior featured in National Geographic video. The whole segment, as it aired. The internet's moment, broken down frame by frame by people who should not be allowed near a telestrator. Licensed footage, credited.
What BBN said on air. Comedy, with fictional anchors.
Gloria VanceA National Geographic short called The helpful bird is number seventeen on YouTube's U.S. trending chart in Pets and Animals, with more than thirty-six million views.
Kenji MoonfieldWe're working with just the title and view count here, no actual footage.
Kenji MoonfieldSo this is file footage, a different bird, but I'm treating it like game tape. Roll it.
Kenji MoonfieldLook at this. Warbler on the left cattail, and he's just sitting there, setting the tone.
Kenji MoonfieldThere it goes. Off the stem, straight through the reeds. That's the turning point.
