OUR HISTORY

SD CINEMATOGRAFICA was formed in 1961 as a production company. Since its founding, the company has produced Films, Variety Programmes, and Science and Cultural documentaries for the Italian public broadcaster RAI and other leading international television companies. In recent years the company has focused on wildlife, Science and History documentaries with such success that it now counts National Geographic Channels, Discovery Channels, TF1, ARTE, NHK, TSR, ARD/BR, PBS and ZDF, as well as RAI and Mediaset, among its clients. Many SD documentaries have won major international prizes at the world’s leading festivals, including Academy Award, Emmy and Banff nominations. Today SD Cinematografica has over 800 hours of programming to its name. [abs]

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Beach. Ripples pricks himself with a thorn as he is playing with Polly and Jason. The three run to the fishing boat, where Dr. Otto, a large octopus, takes the thorn out of Ripples’s foot and, assisted by Jason, dresses the injury. Impressed by the crab’s skill he suggests he study medicine and replace him for a few days. Jason accepts and starts studying hard until Otto takes him to his surgery to let him start his practice. His bizarre cures, based on cookies and ice-cream, get him more and more patients, until the queues outside his surgery get so long that he ends up fainting because the massive workload. As he regains consciousness on the fishing boat he finds Dr. Otto, who apologizes to him for giving him such a burdensome task. The octopus can’t find a remedy for the hiccups that’s struck Icarus; so Jason puts on an African masque and scares the pelican until he is cured. Proud of Jason, Otto awards him a graduation cap.

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