THE COBRA SNAKE IN JAVA

Scene from the feature length documentary film "The Eye of the Day" by Leonard Retel Helmrich for Scarabeefilms 2001. The scene is edited but it is originally shot by using the method of " Single Shot Cinema ".
"The Eye of the Day" is the first film of a thrilogy on Indonesia, together with "Shape of the Moon" ( 2004 ) and "Position among the Stars" ( 2010 ).
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Film & Animation

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• slang
• snake
• Single
• Shot
• Cinema
• Leonard
• Retel
• Helmrich
• Scarabeefilms
• Indonesia

[retel009]

Yes, these kind of cobra's can spit about 3 meters far.

So, inorder to film it I hung the camera on a bamboo stick that was 4 meters long.,

[TheSnakeMate]

2:23 ... wtf??? that was kind of strange that the cobra didnt bite... :-? do they allways catch them in this way? grab them so far behind the head?

[Heyde1979]

did they catch and Equatorial Spitting Cobra