Say Good-bye: America's Endangered Species

Duration: 900 ft.

Year Published: 1972

Creator: Films inc.

Complete Record: A eulogy to the 160 species that have died out in the last 50 years and a last farewell to the hundreds of threatened animals whose extinction is inevitable despite rescue efforts; the crane, the grizzly, alligator and golden eagle. Narrated by Rod McKuen. “The program focuses on the balance of nature, distinguishing between the natural predator, animals that must kill to eat, and the wanton destroyer, man. In North Atlantic waters, baby seals are clubbed, hauled aboard ship and skinned in a bloody fur harvest. A hunter safely perched in a helicopter kills one of the few remaining Arctic polar bears to decorate his den with a bearskin rug. Man's most dangerous weapon, pollution, takes its toll near San Francisco, where horses die of lead-poisoning after grazing in a lead-contaminated pasture. Some people are trying to reverse the trend. Ornithologist Beth Payne is seen working at an island sanctuary she created for the endangered Gulf Coast pelican.”