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CM . . . .
Volume VII Number 10 . . . . January 19, 2001
The film's subtitle, Confessions of a Snake Killer, is a hook, a tease to get you
interested. And it does use rattlesnakes as a theme to move the viewer into the pocket
desert of British Columbia's Okanagan and Similikameen regions. The rattlesnakes are only
part of the story of the area that has faced incredible changes with the coming of
irrigation and intensive agriculture. The film is part biography, using early home movies of
a young girl; it is also part history with clips of early development and rattlesnake hunts,
and, as the narrator traces the changes in the desert, it becomes a personal discussion on
environmental concerns and realities.
The page of notes that accompany the tape provide further evidence of the emphasis the
producers hoped this film would provide. What are the seasonal cycles of your bio-region?
What is the natural history of your area? Describe the impact of human activity on wild
lands/life in your region? And a little snake lore is provided along with a compact
"Glossary of Terms" appropriate to this study.
Pocket Desert is a film that will make you think. It will stay in your head as you think about the
effect of man on the land.
Recommended.
Donald Hamilton is the Managing Editor of School Libraries in Canada, the official publication
of the Canadian School Library Association.
To comment on this title or this review, send mail to cm@umanitoba.ca.
Copyright © the Manitoba Library Association.
Reproduction for personal use is permitted only if this copyright notice
is maintained. Any other reproduction is prohibited without
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