Jane Goodalls Unparalleled Life, in Never-Before-Seen Footage

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'If you ever meet Jane Goodall and well up with overwhelmed joy, you won’t be alone. “I make everybody cry,” said Dr. Goodall, the primatologist and conservationist. “The Jane effect.”

Tears have indeed been shed at “Jane,” a new documentary about her early life and accomplishments. It’s based on more than 100 hours of footage, shot in the 1960s for National Geographic and hidden in its archives since. The cameraman was Hugo van Lawick, who arrived to document Dr. Goodall’s life among the chimpanzees in Gombe, Tanzania, and left as her husband.

“It’s like Marlene Dietrich and Josef Von Sternberg, this classic coupling,” said Brett Morgen, the director of “Jane.”

Dr. Goodall, 83, has a dry sense of humor (“You grow from a baby to an old lady, and then you get older, or not, depending on how many face-lifts you have,” she said) and a well-earned warmth. “Can I give you a chimp hug?” she asked at the end of an interview in a Manhattan hotel.'>>>

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/movies/jane-goodall-documentary-marriage.html?

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1. She is a treasure to mankind.

I wonder in the U.N. or maybe some other international body has anything akin to the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She certainly deserves it! Or a Nobel Peace Prize. Or something on that order.

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2. Many honors etc:

Goodall has received many honours for her environmental and humanitarian work, as well as others. She was named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in a ceremony held in Buckingham Palace in 2004.[63] In April 2002, Secretary-General Kofi Annan named Goodall a United Nations Messenger of Peace. Her other honours include the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement, the French Legion of Honor, Medal of Tanzania, Japan's prestigious Kyoto Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, the Gandhi-King Award for Nonviolence and the Spanish Prince of Asturias Awards. She is also a member of the advisory board of BBC Wildlife magazine and a patron of Population Matters (formerly the Optimum Population Trust). She has received many tributes, honours, and awards from local governments, schools, institutions, and charities around the world. Goodall is honoured by The Walt Disney Company with a plaque on the Tree of Life at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom theme park, alongside a carving of her beloved David Greybeard, the original chimpanzee which approached Goodall during her first year at Gombe.[64] In 2010 Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds held a benefit concert at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC to commemorate Gombe 50: a global celebration of Jane Goodall's pioneering chimpanzee research and inspiring vision for our future.[65]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Goodall#Awards_and_recognition