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Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom - January 6, 1963–1988 / September 17, 2002 – May 22, 2011
NBC (1963–1971) Syndicated (1971–1988) Animal Planet (2002-2011)
Documentary (over 300 episodes)
Running Time: 30 minutes
Hosted by Marlin Perkins (1963 -1985) and Jim Fowler (1963 - 1988)
Hosted by Stan Brock on Animal Planet
Medicine Man: Calabasas CA Community Screening 1st October
“Part cowboy, part naturalist, part lots of other things — he is in many ways a baffling man.” So begins Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story, a documentary focused on the remarkable life of Stan Brock and his founding of the charity Remote Area Medical (RAM). One part exposé of the life and career of British adventurer Stanley Brock, and one part investigation into America’s faltering health-care system, the documentary threads together biography with topical investigative journalism. It shows how Brock made the late-in-life transition from roving animal wrangler to roving medicine man. The documentary’s most compelling moments come from the on-the-ground footage captured at Brock’s mobile health-care sites. We see everyday folks camping out for days for a chance to get everything from tooth extractions to tumors removed free of charge.
The main message of Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story is about how healthcare ought to be a right, not a privilege … but it is also in great part about the absolute importance of volunteerism, the giving of oneself to help those less fortunate. Stan Brock became the consummate volunteer, and named RAM a Volunteer Corps.
Holistic Alameda co-hosted a Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story community screening in June, in association with League of Women Voters of Alameda, Iambic Dream & Alameda Recreation and Park Department at Mastick Center in June! So naturally we're excited about the next California community screening of this important doc film on October 1st in the Los Angeles area at Calabasas Library, which will incorporate a health and volunteer minI-fair, amazing! So spread the word to friends and family!
Here's a sneak peek at Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story:
Join us at the Calabasas Library on Tuesday, October 1st at 5:30pm for a Health and Volunteer Fair and a film screening of this important documentary! This is In association with the Rotary Club of Calabasas and The Friends of the Calabasas Library. Other participants will include CalMatters.org and AirsLa.Org with more to join. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the director Paul Angell. For more further information, email Karilyn Steward at [email protected] or visit the Calabasas Library website: calabasaslibrary.org
Now Reading:
Nathan J. Robinson for Current Affairs “The Best Life Ever Lived?” (2018)
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/09/the-best-life-ever-lived
Let's all wish Stan Brock a Happy Birthday!
Job description: must jump out of a helicopter onto the back of a manatee. Not a problem for Stan Brock.
Dadanawa Ranch: Tourist Destination
DID YOU KNOW?
Dadanawa Ranch, established in the 1920s and Stan Brock's home when he was a ranch manager in Guyana during 1950s and 60s (then British Guiana), is now a tourist attraction! It’s located in the Rupununi, a region located in the South-West of Guyana, bordering the Brazilian Amazon.
Stan took a Remote Area Medical team to the Dadanawa Ranch for Expedition #2 back in the 1980s. That’s an especially long time ago if you stop to consider RAM’s upcoming clinic on July 16-17, 2016 at Whitthorne Middle School in Columbia, Tennessee will be #800!
Dadanawa Ranch is located on the Rupununi River in the Rupununi savannah in the Upper Takutu-Upper Essequibo Region of Guyana, an area known for its biodiversity. The Dadanawa is the largest and most isolated cattle ranch in Guyana, if not the world. 6000 cattle openly roam 1700 square miles, and there is running water from a well - but no electricity! According to Bradt Travel Guides, Dadanawa is "a place where visitors can join vaqueros on an overnight ride to round up cattle one day and birdwatch the next, seeing as many as 80 different species in a few hours around the ranch … Stan Brock, one of the show’s hosts and one-time manager of Dadanawa, captured America’s attention by wrestling giant anacondas in waters where black caiman and piranha lurked, and where jaguars were often spotted along the banks.” Today “it is also a favourite of wildlife film crews and it has served as a temporary home base for many scientists and researchers over the years. The wrestling of anacondas still happens from time to time as well."
Here’s Stan below in an old photo at Dadanawa with his horse Matador.
The name "Dadanawa" is a distortion of the local Wapishana Amerindian name of Dadinauwau, or "macaw spirit creek hill". Take a look at a brief video of a Dadanawa Ranch Sunrise shot in 2015 - imagine yourself there 50 years ago with Stan as a young ranch hand!
Here's a fairly up-to-date Dadanawa profile from Rupununi Tourism which also mentions Stan - just in case you might consider a "journey into the ‘lost world’" where you "can spot caiman, fish for piranha and keep an eye out for jaguar and wrestle an anaconda"! Or meet the Wapishana Indians and discover the messages their ancestors left in volcanic rock!
Find the web travel brochure at: http://rupununi.org/tourism/lodges/dadanawa/
That’s what we call a lariat!
On the Wild Kingdom episode ‘Roundup on the Outback’, Stan chases and is chased by a wild water buffalo.
He ultimately uses a lariat to snare and tie down a buffalo during the roundup near Goodparla in the Northern Territory of Australia.
Here’s an account from the Schenectady (NY) Gazette which looks at how the episode was shot. It explains how the Northern Territory location where it was shot is a wilderness .
WK production still from Goodparla (above), Check out the entire episode on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9snkckU6SvE
Amazon may this week be proposing that a pristine slice of airspace above the world’s cities and suburbs be set aside for the deployment of high-speed aerial drones (a.k.a. unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs) for commerce http://bit.ly/1IGXzLT but the first FAA-sanctioned drone delivery in the USA last week took on a much more humanitarian form.
With Flirtey CEO Matt Sweeney, Flirtey COO Tom Bass and The Health Wagon’s Teresa Gardner to his right and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe to his left, Stan Brock (center) helped pioneer this first-ever on July 17, 2015. Australian startup Flirtey built the drone and beat out Amazon Prime for the honors.
Medication was the payload when the first drone was launched from Lonesome Pine Airport, destined for The Health Wagon/Remote Area Medical clinic at the Wise County Fairgrounds. The drone hung 30 meters in the air over the drop site for about half an hour in wait for the Lonesome Pine entourage including Stan to arrive. Once everyone was in place, the drone slowly dropped its medipacket on a cord to the ground while aloft.
Rachel Glines, student at UVa- Wise got this quick video of the packet arrival ceremony and posted it on Instagram: http://bit.ly/1H0cw4p
After the inaugural drop, over 20 further pharmaceutical drops were made. Interviewed about events for CBS by Chip Reid, Stan was especially excited about drone use after catastrophic events:
"The ability to dispatch some life-saving blood for a transfusion from point A to point B in disasters … it's coming. And we need it."
All photos and videos, unless otherwise noted, courtesy of Virginia Tech.
All of this action will be featured in our forthcoming feature-length documentary about Stan’s life, Medicine Man: The Stan Brock Story. Please check out our fundraiser here, any support or publicity you could give us would be gratefully received: http://igg.me/at/medicineman
