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Primetime National Public Television documentary about Iceland, North Atlantic puffins, and the efforts of a team of zoologists to create a unique seabird exhibit -- another step forward in the evolving face and function of zoos worldwide.

Filmed in the heart of Chicago, across the uninhabited Icelandic interior, and on the sea cliffs of volcanic Heimaey Island, the program provides a window to two lands and its people; one urban and American, the other, wild, wondrous, and inhabited by modern-day descendants of ancient Vikings, and to a delightful little bird that most of us would never get a chance to see. The film begins by tracking the expedition of the project's lead zoologist across the entire length of Iceland, taking in an amazing landscape of waterfalls, glaciers, hot springs and geysers and spending a day with a rural Icelandic family living on the country's north coast, only a few miles from the Arctic Circle. He then travels by ship to the only inhabited island in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, located off of Iceland's south coast. Here, the zoologist is joined by a handful of colleagues, who set to work on the steep coastal bluffs to humanely capture and crate for air transport to the U.S. several dozen ...

AWARD EVENT: National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences - Chicago/Midwest Chapter; AWARD: Emmy; CATEGORY: 'Special Achievement: Documentary of Current Importance'; YEAR: 1984-1985; RANK: 1 (won); RECIPIENT: Dugan Rosalini, Producer; TITLE: Arctic Window.

AWARD EVENT: National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences - Chicago/Midwest Chapter; AWARD: Emmy; CATEGORY: 'Special Achievement in Photography'; YEAR: 1984-1985; RANK: 1 (won); RECIPIENT: Robert Seaman, Jerry Pantzer, Charlie Lieberman; TITLE: Arctic Window.