Koko : A Talking Gorilla
A Feature film of
Production year1978
French release11/10/1978
Runtime
1h 25m
Synopsis
Penny Patterson, an American psychology student, began an experiment in primate communication in the early 1970s using a young zoo gorilla named Koko, who was loaned to Penny for the experiment. Due to a philosophical predisposition to consider that "humanizing" animals is wrong, and alarmed at the increasing publicity over the experiments, the zoo took back the gorilla, which by then had learned over three hundred signs and showed, to many observers, an almost human comprehension of her condition. This French documentary explores the experiments, the circumstances of Koko's being withdrawn from them, and the question of the gorilla's "civil rights," if any.
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Director (1)
Actors (2)
Production and distribution (3)
- Executive Producers : Les Films du Losange, Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Les Films du Losange
- French distribution : Les Films du Losange
Full credits (10)
- Executive Producers : Barbet Schroeder, Margaret Menegoz, Pierre Emmanuel
- Screenwriter : Barbet Schroeder
- Director of Photography : Nestor Almendros
- Music Composers : Guta Cattoni, Maris Embiricos
- Editors : Denise De Casabianca, Dominique Auvray
- Sound Recordist : Lee Alexander
- Production manager : Margaret Menegoz
- Assistant editor : Roselyne Petit
- Foley artist : Jonathan Liebling
- Narrator : Barbet Schroeder
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Documentary
- Sub-genre : Animalier
- Themes : Fauna
- Production language : French
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Production year : 1978
- French release : 11/10/1978
- Runtime : 1 h 25 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 47736
- Visa issue date : 07/07/1978
- Approval : Unknown
- Production formats : 16mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : 1.37
- Audio format : Mono
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