SD CINEMATOGRAFICA was formed in 1961 as a production company. Since its founding, the company has produced Films, Variety Programmes, and Science and Cultural documentaries for the Italian public broadcaster RAI and other leading international television companies. In recent years the company has focused on wildlife, Science and History documentaries with such success that it now counts National Geographic Channels, Discovery Channels, TF1, ARTE, NHK, TSR, ARD/BR, PBS and ZDF, as well as RAI and Mediaset, among its clients. Many SD documentaries have won major international prizes at the world’s leading festivals, including Academy Award, Emmy and Banff nominations. Today SD Cinematografica has over 800 hours of programming to its name. [abs]
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Animabit
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On the beach, Ripples, Polly and Jason meet a turtle and are lead to Icarus the pelican’s fishing boat. The turtle makes a rather rough manoeuvre and Ripples ends up in the seabed next to an amphora where the tiny Moreno is hiding away from “threatening” shadows. Ripples thinks the amphora contains a mysterious creature and, in a fright, goes back to his friends and Icarus on board the fishing boat. Icarus thinks Ripples has found a magic amphora with a genie inside. The three friends go back down to look for the amphora, but instead of a genie they find Moreno. In the meantime Icarus has remembered the magic words to awaken genies, but is very disappointed when his three friends inform him it was all a misunderstanding. They all improvise a playful ring-around-the-roses reciting the magic formula to awaken the genie, who does actually live in the amphora but, not seeing anyone, goes back to sleep.