“ ELEPHANTS IN THE TEAK FOREST “ DISCOVERY ’67 TV SHOW LAMPANG NORTHERN THAILAND UNICEF XD30782

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website Produced in 1967, this episode of the long-running children’s television show “Discovery“ focuses on the Asian elephants of Thailand. It features hosts Bill Owen and Virginia Gibson, who begin the episode by re-capping a previous episode which showed a visit to a family in Southern Thailand. At 1:55 host Bill Owen talks about how they are now in Northern Thailand. At 2:04 they are in the province of Lampang and they will be telling the story of two young families in Northern Thailand. The first family lives in a house between the town of Lampang and the village of Mungo. At 2:23 Virginia Gibson starts talking about how Northern Thailand is very different from Southern Thailand. “Here the people do not depend on rice, fruit, or vegetables,” says Virginia Gibson. In Northern Thailand, the huge teak trees and Asian elephants are crucial in the lives of the people that