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Fathom

Forty million years ago,their brains exploded with complexity

Fathom • 2021
Forty million years ago,
their brains exploded with complexity

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Forty million years ago, their brains exploded with complexity.
Duration
6 seconds
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23
Timestamp in Movie
00:45:21
Uploaded
May 09, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Sandbox Films,Impact Partners,Walking Upstream Pictures,Back Allie Entertainment,Hidden Candy,Catapult Film Fund,Sundance Institute

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Movie Summary

Fathom is a visual and aural wonder of a documentary that follows researchers working to finally decode the communication of humpback whales. With Dr. Michelle Fournet, Dr. Ellen Garland.
Consciousness bloomed because they became social. - Fathom 00:04
Consciousness bloomed because they became social.
Regions related to self and community - Fathom 00:07
Regions related to self and community
Allowing whales to see one another through sound. - Fathom 00:05
Allowing whales to see one another through sound.
Whales evolved to build relationships in the dark. - Fathom 00:05
Whales evolved to build relationships in the dark.
That's exactly what we want. This is it. This is the one! - Fathom 00:05
That's exactly what we want. This is it. This is the on...
This is the one. We're gonna hold the cable for an hour. - Fathom 00:04
This is the one. We're gonna hold the cable for an hour...
The song we recorded is different from the one I've been tracking. - Fathom 00:05
The song we recorded is different from the one I've bee...
In 20 years of song recordings across the South Pacific, - Fathom 00:08
In 20 years of song recordings across the South Pacific,
The song has a complex structure and fully formed themes. - Fathom 00:05
The song has a complex structure and fully formed themes.
Maybe French Polynesia isn't the end of the map. - Fathom 00:04
Maybe French Polynesia isn't the end of the map.
In a week, I lose Leanna and Maggie to their day jobs. - Fathom 00:06
In a week, I lose Leanna and Maggie to their day jobs.
Since we've gone from tracking one whale to dozens, - Fathom 00:07
Since we've gone from tracking one whale to dozens,
You also look very, like, - Fathom 00:06
You also look very, like,
Well, so, that's so that you can't see my sweat stains in the black, - Fathom 00:08
Well, so, that's so that you can't see my sweat st...
Just there, and there, and there, and there, and there, and... - Fathom 00:07
Just there, and there, and there, and there, and there, and....
I don't know exactly where we're leaking from, - Fathom 00:06
I don't know exactly where we're leaking from,
But I know that when I'm feeding it fuel, that my intake is fine, - Fathom 00:07
But I know that when I'm feeding it fuel, that my intak...
Just know that, probably for the next several hours, - Fathom 00:09
Just know that, probably for the next several hours,
So he's saying 4:00, 4:30 at the Marina de Vaiare. - Fathom 00:04
So he's saying 4:00, 4:30 at the Marina de Vaiare.
I just said that we didn't have any good song, - Fathom 00:07
I just said that we didn't have any good song,