Jean Hartley, born in Kenya, is acknowledged as being the first to
legitimise ìfixingî for wildlife film crews. Over the last 25 years, she
has worked on over a thousand films, the vast majority being about
wildlife and nature. She features five of the great film makers who all
started their careers in Kenya in the1950s, legends whom she is proud to
call personal friends. Watching all of their films, and many more, she
became fascinated by the history of film making in Kenya and determined
to find out when it all started. In this insightful book, she traces the
roots of wildlife film back a hundred years, drawing on accounts of the
original film makers and the professional hunters who guided those early
safaris. She tracks the changes from those grainy, speeded up, silent
films through to the technologically perfect High Definition and 3D
films that are being made today.