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Flipper and Lopaka – The Secrets of Quetzo (1999)

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clip What do we need two banana plantations for?

Original classification rating: G. This clip chosen to be G

Clip description

Digging up the sand to plant a new banana plantation, Lopaka and Bolo find an ancient carved stone.

Curator’s notes

Seamlessly embedded lessons of all types for child viewers are integral to a Yoram Gross production. In this clip, part of the storyline includes an in-context environmental and history lesson by village elder Kerava on crop rotation and the preservation of ancient artefacts – value added information that would interest many children in the target audience. The only human girl character is Nola, who plays a very minor role in this episode. The predominant characters are male or androgenous fish.