{"id":3897,"date":"2008-05-10T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2008-05-10T21:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3897"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:16:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:16:42","slug":"information-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3897","title":{"rendered":"Information on National Geographic special about “Battle at Kruger” video"},"content":{"rendered":"

The special is tomorrow – Mother’s Day – at 9 PM.<\/p>\n

Here’s the link I put up yesterday Tom Faranda’s Folly: "Battle at Kruger" – youtube video seen over 30,000,000 times since it’s debut in May, ’07.<\/a>, and here’s the NY Times<\/strong> article from this morning.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve Seen the YouTube Video; Now Try the Documentary – New York Times<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Sensing they had just witnessed something special, Jason Schlosberg, another member of the safari group, asked Mr. Budzinski for a copy of the video. Mr. Budzinski tried unsuccessfully to sell it to television networks. \u201cThey all told us the same thing \u2014 they don\u2019t accept any footage from amateurs,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

For almost three years the film essentially sat on the shelf. But a year ago, when Mr. Schlosberg used YouTube to share the video with a friend \u2014 it was easier than making a DVD copy and mailing it, he said \u2014 \u201cBattle at Kruger\u201d started spreading virally on the Internet. Before long, National Geographic contacted Mr. Schlosberg, who in turn called Mr. Budzinski. That tourist turned online star had never heard of YouTube. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The special is tomorrow – Mother’s Day – at 9 PM. Here’s the link I put up yesterday Tom Faranda’s Folly: "Battle at Kruger" – youtube video seen over 30,000,000 times since it’s debut in May, ’07., and here’s the NY Times article from this morning. You\u2019ve Seen the YouTube Video; Now Try the Documentary […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9283,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3897\/revisions\/9283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}