[Observer Network Comprehensive Report] Remember this picture?

On the Galapagos Island in the Pacific Ocean, the iguana cubs escaped from the snakes.

This thrilling scene comes from the second season of the British BBC documentary "The Earth Pulses" and was awarded as "a moment that the audience must watch" by the British Film Academy Award in 2016.

However, according to the BBC6’s report on June 15th, Elizabeth White, a producer of "The Earth Pulses 2", pointed out that the young iguanas did not cooperate with the snakes when filming the documentary, so the pictures broadcast were "stitched" together by two cameras, and it was not the same iguanas who were besieged by the snakes and finally escaped.

The BBC denied this statement.

The BBC said that the documentary did use two cameras when shooting, but this was to present different perspectives of iguana cubs and snakes, and there was no such thing as "stitching".

In addition, the documentary really only filmed the escape course of one iguana cub.

The BBC has won praise from the outside world for shooting many high-quality wildlife documentaries, but it has also been exposed more than once.Suspected of fraud.

In 2015, the video of a "volcanic thunderstorm" in southern Chile in the BBC documentary Patagonia: The Secret Paradise of the Earth was amazing.

However, according to the British "Daily Mail" report, thunderstorms are synthetic, and two videos are taken from two volcanic eruptions in 2011 and 2015.

In this regard, the film producer Tuppence Si Tong explained: "This kind of phenomenon exists in reality, but it is difficult to observe it with the naked eye or shoot it with a single camera. It is necessary to rely on special technology to present and describe such real natural wonders. "

"Our purpose (to do this) is to present an amazing visual impact in a volcanic eruption," Si Tong said. "We used a time-lapse photo of the volcano taken in early 2015, and lightning was added to the ejected clouds."

The additional lightning is another volcanic eruption landscape acquired by a Chilean photographer with long exposure four years ago.

Screenshot fromDocumentary Patagonia: The Secret Paradise of the Earth

In 2015, in the BBC documentary "Planet of Man", the episode "Desert: Life in the Melting Pot" tells that two Mongolian herders were attacked by wolves because of their camels, and then tried to shoot a wild wolf.

However, a "wild wolf" appearing in the desert scene in the film actually made a guest appearance under the command of the wolf trainer.

The BBC also admitted that the wild wolf appeared in this shot was actually in a semi-domesticated state. When shooting this group of shots, the wolf trainer stood outside the camera and directed the wolf to run to himself.

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In 2011, in the documentary Frozen Planet, BBC also synthesized pictures of polar bears giving birth in the wild.

There is a picture in Frozen Planet: a newborn polar bear baby is lying in his mother’s arms and whispering. The audience who have seen it believe that it was taken by the cameraman in the cold climate.

Screenshot from documentaryFrozen planet

But the fact is that the polar bear gave birth in a zoo, the BBC matched it with a wild background, and the snow in the picture was fake.

The BBC explained at the time that it was "almost impossible" to film polar bears giving birth in the wild.

The fake cave created by the film crew is from the Daily Mail.