The scene with the weaver colony catching fire was staged for storytelling purposes. The filmmakers found a colony that had apparently been abandoned for a very long time and set it alight. The dewdrop was staged in a small frame, and footage of the birds was spliced in.
This nature documentary took three and a half years to make.
500,000 feet (152 kilometers) of film negative were used to shoot the documentary.
The film was made and released about six years before director Jamie Uys made his famous African comedy The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980). Both films featured the Kalahari Desert.
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