Say Goodbye

This landmark documentary had a profound impact on my whole being. The fearless makers had the insight, foresight & the passion to come right out & say what needed to be said & done. The dedcation & compassion of the Craigheads was life affirming. This site is one of few to acknowledge the films' existence. Sad, pathetic, outrageous. I challenge anyone in the bloody world to do the right thing & share a copy of this awesome film.

Really my girlfriend and I were filmmakers at a young age of 16 and watching this film numerous times affected us to mimick perhaps this film that with out blaming her her demands to make this film that ended my filmmaking that was the last film i was ever to make untill many years later the last 8mm film that is. At any rate it also was a giant problem in our relationship and we broke up this film really in effect ruined my life.

I hated her for having me be a part of making of her film but she had worked on about 4 of my films with me so i gave in.

I can remember watching this documentary on TV on or near it's release. I was in my early teens then and was totally shocked by some of the graphic scenes that were shown, numerous scenes that today would not escape the censors. One particular scene I remember is a female Polar Bear being shot and as it lay dying calling to its 2 cubs to run for their lives to escape the guns. The Seal Cull already mentioned was also very brutal and Prairy Dogs being shot as they appear from their burrows. Some of these scenes were shown in slow motion making the effect even more dramatic for want of a better word. A very upsetting experience back then and one which I'm sure I couldn't put myself through again, animal lovers stay well away.

I saw this on TV when I was 13. It made such an impression on me ("these flying birds are Japanese Ibis. There are only 13 left in the world. You are now seeing 8 of them.") Very powerful. So much so that I wrote to the address at the end of the film and ordered 30 pamphlets of "Say Goodbye" and spoke on the film as a class project while passing out the pamphlets to my classmates. I would give my eye teeth to find a copy of one of those pamphlets . They had a little picture in the center of the front cover of a polar bear cub sitting on the tundra. The picture was taken right after his mother was killed from an airplane. The film was narrated by Rod McKuen, a poet at the time. This film made me respect animals for the rest of my life and I am 58 now.

I saw this film on a 16mm film in 3rd grade when my teacher showed it to us. It's tells you what's happening to our world's animals. It's also pretty graphic. In fact, too graphic for 3rd graders. We have a scene with poachers beating seals to death. Those big jerks! Of course, it was probably a reenactment and they were not using real seals. Of course, this film was made in 1970 and I saw it 20 years after it was made (in 1990). A lot could've changed between now and then, but we still need to protect our environment and save our animal friends.