now, at 83, jane goodall is the subject of a new documentary simply titled, "jane." the film revisits her early years in the forest with chimpanzees and draws on more than 100 hours of previously unseen footage. newshour weekend's christopher booker recently spoke with goodall and the film's director, brett morgen. this segment is part of our ongoing series of conversations with documentary filmmakers. >> reporter: jane goodall is best known for her groundbreaking studies of chimpanzees. her observations in 1960 that they eat meat and make tools, transformed the world's understanding of humankind's closest relative. the photographs, magazine articles and films that followed made goodall famous. >> you know, i was shy basically, and i wanted to be out in the field. and then this media started coming at me in all directions. and, of course, in the beginning it was kind of pathetic, really, you know, beauty and the beast, and geographic cover girl, and all that kind of stuff. but as soon as i moved into the realization that nature and chimpanzees and all the things i lov

. >> i saw jane goodall when she came to the hollywood schoolhouse and bye-bye plastic bags is a part of that program. >> but you ask? are you involved in it? tell us. >> we ended up saving water to the school and we ended up saving lake 357 gallons and then we got project of the month. [applause] >> i did not find any that were, i think it's because we laid the groundwork before we went. i never photographed anybody until i had talked with them for maybe an hour. so, they felt fairly comfortable come all over africa they were call me whatever word meant grandmother, judge, their relationship with me was completely different than what was with alex, but, they were not reticent about telling their stories, i had shown them other books so they knew exactly what they were getting into. they were very proud of being able to help girls around the world when i explained that 100% of the royalty would go to girls around the world, they wanted to be part of that. >> what would happen if one of the girls tried to fight back against the men? >> i don't know. nobody talked to me about that exper

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