NHNZ

NHNZ, formerly Natural History New Zealand is a New Zealand-based factual television production house creating original content for global broadcasters.

From 1997 to 2012, NHNZ was a subsidiary of Fox International Channels and an incorporated New Zealand Limited Company (New Zealand Companies Office registration number 884648). In October 2012, former Fox executive David Haslingden acquired 100% of NHNZ.

NHNZ has filmed above and below every ocean and every continent, including Antarctica - where it has produced 19 documentary films in total. The company has earned more than 300 international awards, among them two Emmy Awards, the television industry’s highest accolade, and a prestigious Wildscreen Panda Award.

In addition to its base in Dunedin, New Zealand, NHNZ has offices in Beijing and Washington DC and, majority ownership of Singapore-based production company Beach House Pictures and Aquavision Wildlife Filmmakers in South Africa.

It works and co-produces with multiple major global broadcasters: Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Discovery Science, A&E Television Networks, National Geographic Channel, Travel Channel, NHK (Japan), France 5 and ZDF (Germany). As a result, NHNZ's programmes are seen in more than 180 countries by millions of viewers.

NHNZ Moving Images

NHNZ Moving Images is a subsidiary unit of NHNZ, a New Zealand-based factual television production house, creating original content for global broadcasters. It sells footage and outtakes from NHNZ’s documentaries, and also represents National Geographic Channels Worldwide library of footage.

History

NHNZ Moving Images was created several years after NHNZ established an Emerging Media team to maximize opportunities for selling or re-versioning the company’s large library of footage.

It is now the largest repository of New Zealand documentary archive footage online in the country.

Partnership

It was selected in 2011 as a partner with National Geographic Channels Worldwide to archive and sell its footage as an exclusive agent.

New technology

NHNZ Moving Images in 2012 signed an agreement with New Zealand’s University of Otago to develop an image recognition technology to catalogue its footage. The project aims to use the technology to identify objects in each shoot, eliminating the current labour-intensive "shot list" producers need to create before editing.

The Most

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The Most Extreme

The Most Extreme is a documentary television series on the American cable television network, Animal Planet. It first aired on July 7, 2002. Each episode focuses on a specific animal feature, such as strength, speed, behavior, anatomy, or diet, and examines and ranks ten animals that portray extreme or unusual examples of that quality. The rankings serve only to give a broad depiction; a scientifically rigorous procedure is not employed to quantify them. For instance, the episode that focuses on the greatest jumpers suggests that the klipspringer can jump 7.6 m (25 ft) high. However, the figure in meters is more likely to be the correct figure for feet, which should be 2.3 m (7.5 ft).

Along with each animal on the countdown, each episode presents a computer-animated segment which compares the animal's ability with something equivalent in humans, followed by an interview segment with people who share some common trait. For example, in "Super Sharks", the animal ranked #1 was the Hammerhead shark, for its extreme senses of vision and smell, along with its ability to sense voltages as small as a half-billionth of a volt. This was then compared with a team of human hackers, including StankDawg, who were war-driving around a neighborhood and looking for faint wireless signals. Old, often public domain, cartoons, movie clips and trailers are often included.

New Zealand

New Zealand (/njuːˈziːlənd/ new-ZEE-lənd, Māori: Aotearoa [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. The country geographically comprises two main landmasses – that of the North Island, or Te Ika-a-Māui, and the South Island, or Te Waipounamu – and numerous smaller islands. New Zealand is situated some 1,500 kilometres (900 mi) east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly 1,000 kilometres (600 mi) south of the Pacific island areas of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga. Because of its remoteness, it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans. During its long isolation, New Zealand developed a distinctive biodiversity of animal, fungal and plant life. The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions. New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, while its most populous city is Auckland.

Somewhere between 1250 and 1300 CE, Polynesians settled in the islands that were to become New Zealand, and developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, Abel Tasman, a Dutch explorer, became the first European to sight New Zealand. In 1840, representatives of the British Crown and Māori Chiefs signed the Treaty of Waitangi, making New Zealand a British colony. Today, the majority of New Zealand's population of 4.5 million is of European descent; the indigenous Māori are the largest minority, followed by Asians and Pacific Islanders. Reflecting this, New Zealand's culture is mainly derived from Māori and early British settlers, with recent broadening arising from increased immigration. The official languages are English, Māori and New Zealand Sign Language, with English predominant.