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The Documentary Group is a video production company specializing in history, environmental issues an

16/04/2024

11/12/2023

Of course the amazing Director of Photography, Tom Newcomb and I have managed to cobble together careers taking pictures of pretty stuff. But between shoots, we've both had the opportunity to experience some pretty cool stuff without dragging a camera around. Here are some shots from Tom's trip down the Grand Canyon last summer.

01/09/2023

OUTSTANDING IN OUR FIELD. Getting a crash course in managing cattle with NWSG. (Native Warm Season Grasses) Great folks, great weather!

21/08/2023

NICE NEW GIG! The Missouri Department of Conservation has tasked us with convincing Missouri cattlemen that converting some of their pasture to native warm season grasses is not only better for wildlife, pollinators and cows, but it can save them money. Filming on grasslands is always challenging, but the sunsets are so worth it.

14/07/2023

06/05/2023

You know if your job description includes taking pictures of pretty spring flowers you are doing something right. Really great folks at Deep Roots KC creating pollinator habitat with native plant landscaping throughout the Kansas City metro area. And Bluebell Valley was amazing!

12/03/2023

Forrest Keeling Field Day. Quite the event!

04/01/2023

Kind of a nice segment we did on urban conservation partnerships in the Kansas City area. Challenging filming under the deep shade of the honeysuckle thickets, but old friends and nice new ones carried the day.

21/12/2022

Merry Christmas from The Documentary Group! (Of course that's just Jim and Tom) I'd send everyone a card, but mailing addresses are hard to come by in this digital era. Lets change that in 2023. Had a great year: bears, bees and trees for MDC, a cool project on Prairie Strips, Mizzou Botanic Garden and Forrest Keeling's field day event to name a few. Next year is looking good as well, lots of urban forestry projects for MDC's Private Lands Division. Here's a link to a snowy day on MU's Quad, plus some random chilly shots, seems appropriate on this winter solstice! Happy Holidays!

Winter at MU
https://youtu.be/q2GCA5413so

23/09/2022

Great time filming the Forrest Keeling Field Day event. Sort of a who's who of Conservation, including our old buddy Chad Pregracke. Lunch was OK too!

08/09/2022

Lovely day on the MU campus yesterday, fufilling the last chapter of the Legacy Oaks saga. Ten white oaks were planted on the West side of the Quad, replacing the aging and damaged pin oaks. We should be set for at least 200 years!

16/08/2022

Newcomb shot the St. Louis stuff, not sure who filmed the underwater release stuff, but it's some nice footage!

14/08/2022

We did this maybe twenty years ago. Appears to be holding up, at least MDC must think so, they just put it up on their page.

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Forrest Keeling Field Day. Quite the event!

Our second opportunity filming at Greenwood Cemetery, very moving place, great project, amazing people!

Forrest Keeling

Our friend Bruce Sassmann won the Republican primary in House District 62 on Tuesday. A voice of discipline, reason and a true friend of conservation is one step closer to Jefferson City.

Amidon

Send a Card 5.11a

Back in the climbing business.

Reworking a little CFM footage to create something a little more social media friendly. Wow Missouri is blessed with some great trout streams!

Leo Drey Profile

Leo Drey. Missouri's own "Legend of Conservation". What a remarkable legacy. Celebrating his birthday tomorrow. Born January 19th, 1917.

Dollars, Gods and Gasoline

During the Roadkill Orchestra's Great Northwoods Tour, the group made time for a modest house concert at Rob Lampe's Minnesota lakehouse.

Roadkill Chilli

The Tavern, Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, June 8th, 2018

Legends of Conservation, May 18th & 19th

Check out the Spring beauty on Bruce and Jan Sassmann's Osage County farm. There are still tickets available for the Legends of Conservation event, "The Tramp and the Roughrider" a two man play highlighting Teddy Roosevelt's eye opening encounter with John Muir in Yostemite Valley ca early 1900's. May 18th & 19th. Go to www.legendsofconservation.com for details.

TRUE STORY: A couple of zillion years ago, some buddies of ours were looking for American Burying Beetles, a large, charismatic critter, presumed to be extinct in the state of Missouri. We were going to help with a video. So we built this huge simulated prairie INSIDE a studio, and somehow procured the last two of these bugs left in the state for a photo shoot. Well none of us Einstein’s had considered that something named a Burying Beetle might be good at digging, as soon as they hit the set they burrowed down into the hundreds of pounds of dirt we had brought in. We had lost the breeding stock, essentially dooming the species to extinction. There is a pretty heavy karmic load there, and for just a moment the gravity of our crime began to set in. Fortunately, after destroying our meticulously built set, we were able to round up the escapees and complete the shoot. (Small excerpt below) Funny thing is those two beetles became part of a captive breeding population that is now re-populating Missouri prairies, that hard fought footage has new relevance. The American Burying Beetles are back!

Burr Oak Woods

Cute kids and nature. Whats not to like

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