KAREN ROSA: “Everything from the smallest insect to the largest mammal. We believe that for the sake of entertainment, everybody should go home alive.”

This was not always the policy in the early days of film. In nineteen thirty-nine a horse was forced off a mountain, falling to his death, in the movie “Jesse James.” The next year, guidelines were established to guarantee safe and healthy conditions for animals in movies.

SOUND – “Rise of the Planet of the Apes”

MAN: “He’s a smart one, isn’t he?”

That is from the new film “Rise of the Planet of the Apes.” The movie tells about the creation of super intelligent apes through science. However, no real animals were among the performers. Computer generated imagery provided the chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans that movie goers see.

Clare Richardson is the president of the Diane Fossey Gorilla Fund. She says computer generated imagery should decrease the use of animals in the film industry.

CLARE RICHARDSON: “I think we need to send a stronger message when we say, phase it out people, you don’t really need it.

Karen Rosa praises movie makers for the use of computer-made animals. But, she also says there is nothing like the real thing.

KAREN ROSA: “Capturing the real animal and its personality, the individual animal as well as the collective representation of the species, is unique and very special that it can be presented on film.”