Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark will be released on Blu-ray on October 22 via Warner Archive. Not to be confused with the 2010 remake, this is the original 1973 made-for-television film
The ABC Movie of the Week is directed by John Newland (Peyton Place, Alfred Hitchcock Presents). Kim Darby and Jim Hutton star with William Demarest, Barbara Anderson, and Pedro Armendáriz Jr.
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark has been newly remastered in 4K from the original camera negative. Special features are listed below.
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Sid Haig ( 1939 - 2019 )
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What of immortality, that last refuge of those who have known too few pleasures and too many sufferings, and who dream of finding some compensation in another world? It is easy to understand how people who have grown up in prejudice and with but little confidence in science, which has so often deceived them, people who are led by feeling rather than thought, reject an explanation which takes from them their last hope.
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When Nalini Nadkarni was a young scientist in the 1980s, she wanted to study the canopy – the part of the trees just above the forest floor to the very top branches.
But back then, people hadn’t figured out a good way to easily reach the canopy so it was difficult to conduct research in the tree tops. And Nadkarni’s graduate school advisors didn’t really think studying the canopy was worthwhile. “That’s just Tarzan and Jane stuff. You know that’s just glamour stuff,” Nadkarni remembers advisors telling her. “There’s no science up there that you need to do.”
They couldn’t have been more wrong. Over the course of her career, Nadkarni’s work has illuminated the unique and complex world of the forest canopy.
She helped shape our understanding of canopy soils — a type of soil that forms on the tree trunks and branches. The soil is made up of dead canopy plants and animals that decompose in place. The rich soil supports canopy-dwelling plants, insects and microorganisms that live their entire life cycles in the treetops. If the canopy soil falls to the forest floor, the soil joins the nutrient cycles of the whole forest.
She also discovered that some trees are able to grow above-ground roots from their branches and trunks. Much like below ground roots, the aerial roots can transport water and nutrients into the tree.
During Nadkarni’s early work as an ecologist she began to realize something else: There weren’t many women conducting canopy research.
Nadkarni was determined to change this. In the early 2000s, she and her lab colleagues came up with the idea of TreeTop Barbie, a canopy researcher version of the popular Barbie doll that could be marketed to young girls.
VIDEO: Tree Scientist Inspires Next Generation … Through Barbie
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