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China: The Panda Adventure (2001)
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China: The Panda Adventure (2001)
Original name: IMAX - China: The Panda Adventure
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story: Experience the world of the magnificent and rare Giant Panda as you travel back in time on an exciting expedition through the breathtaking splendor of 1936 China. Inspired by the true-life story of widowed New York socialite Ruth Harkness, a fiercely independent woman who dared to take up her late husband's expedition, journeying deep into the forests of China to study the Giant Panda.
Style: sincere, uplifting, serious, realistic, exciting
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: adventurer, extinction, environmentalism, human spirit, danger, panda, conservation, heroes, family life, dangerous animal, escapades, estate, hopes, dealing with death, couple relations, existence paradox, nature, animal life, family
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place: china, new york

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