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# This is a list of videos on CPs which I have either seen or heard about.   #
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Videos, CD ROM and slides:

 "Death Trap". VHS video by Time-Life, 1989. Time-Life Video, 777 Duke
    Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. (Also as a videodisk "Death Trap", The 
    Biology of Carnivorous Plants, VideoDiscovery, 55 min, 
    http://www.videodiscovery.com:80/vdyweb/school/catalog/DEA.htm)
   Descr.: 60 min., shown plants: Pinguicula, Nepenthes, Heliamphora,
   Cephalotus, detailed: Drosera, Utricularia, Dionaea, Aldrovanda,
   Sarracenia, unidentified bromeliad. Beautiful time-lapse photography
   of close-ups of growth and digestion. Discussed is a mechanism of trap
   closure, symbiotic relationships with insects, a probable evolution of
   CPs. Other 'peculiarities' are shown (mimosa, Roridulla). A nice video!

 "Beautiful and Hungry - Carnivorous Plants". Siegfried Hartmayer, 
    A Hartmayer Production, Germany, 1994. Available from author:
    Siegfried Hartmayer, Wittlinger Strasse 5, 79576 Weil am Rhein, Germany.
    Systems S-VHS and VHS, DM 46 + postage (DM 15).
   Descr.: 60 (?) minutes, shows plants growing in Singapore, Australia, 
   Germany, Switzerland and Seychelles, mainly Nepenthes, Drosera and 
   Cephalotus.             

 "Beautiful and Hungry - Carnivorous Plants, Part 2". Siegfried Hartmayer, 
    A Hartmayer Production, Germany, 1994. Available from author:
    Siegfried Hartmayer, Wittlinger Strasse 5, 79576 Weil am Rhein, Germany.
    Systems S-VHS(PAL) and VHS(PAL), (NTSC not available!), DM 60.00 or $
    40.00. CD rom should be available at the end of 1996.
   Descr.: 80 minutes, it is about northern Australia, it's CPs and their 
   associated insects, covers Kununurra Region, Beverley Springs, Darwin 
   Region, and Far North Queensland.

 "Carnivorous Plants". Cabisco Video, Baker & Taylor Video, 1990 or
    Cabisco Video, Carolina Biological Supply, Burlington, NC, 1992 (1995?) 
    ISBN ? or 6302278376, US$69.99, VHS Tape.
   Descr.: 20 minutes. Examines the prey-catching mechanisms of pitcher 
   plants, butterworts, sundews, Venus' flytraps, water wheel plants and 
   bladderworts. Includes explanatory animation and close-up, slow-motion
   photography.

 "Fleischfressende Pflanzen fuer das Freiland". Georg Benda, Nonnenbusch 
    51a, 45770 Marl, Germany. Photo-CD 1, 1997. DM 40 + postage.
   Descr.: 100 photographs in Kodak-Photo-CD format, 20 in JPEG format,
   approx. 300 MB of information about CPs in WORD 7.0 format.

  
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