WANDERING THROUGH WINTER

Part of The Four Seasons series, this film's focus is winter. A time of migration and hibernation, winter also sets the blood racing, the nip of the wind quickening our every move. Ducks wing their way south as skiers race down slopes. Deer forage in a thicket as woodpeckers move through the treetops. The constantly recurring drama of nature has been captured in this spectacular film. Here is the story of natural selection and the survival of the fittest, of predator and prey. Yet winter is also a season of hope as the days lengthen and the sun returns. Soon there will be a new beginning. The river otter starts counting in February. The great horned owl and its young greet the new season. Life steps up its pace everywhere, and the seasons have come full cycle.

Produced by Philip S. Hobel
1989, 47 minutes
Teacher's Guide available
Purchase: $150 Classroom Rental: $75

* Silver Medal, Atlanta Film Festival
* Chris Award, Columbus Film Festival

"...Considerately paced, informative narration combines with spectacular filming techniques in these nature walks that consider interrelationships of the wild, for schools, community groups, and public libraries." - Booklist (American Library Association)

Other titles in the series include:

- North With the Spring
- Journey Into Summer
- Autumn Across America

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THE FOUR SEASONS (Series) This award-winning series celebrates the scenic splendor of North America's changing seasons while emphasizing the urgent need for protection and conservation of the world's environment and wildlife.

AUTUMN ACROSS AMERICA Part of The Four Seasons series, this film poses some searching and often bewildering questions. It asks why we still offer bounties for certain animals...why we destroy the awe-inspiring redwood forests...why the elk is near extinction...why the trumpeter swan was "too beautiful to live."

JOURNEY INTO SUMMER Part of The Four Seasons series, this quietly beautiful film shows natrue at her zenith of color and life. Everything is in full bloom--plants, insects, animals--and all are performing their individual and interdependent roles in nature's great life cycle.

NORTH WITH THE SPRING Part of The Four Seasons series, this charming film focuses on the world's favorite season, spring: the season of youth, of lovers, the mating season