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Then tune in the PBS "Adventure"' series scheduled for broadcast on May 8. Titled "Into the Great Solitude" and produced by Christopher Knight '65, it is the epic tale of naturalist and author Rob Perkins's 700-mile solo canoe voyage down the remote Back River in Canada's Northwest Territories. Alone for 72 days in the tundra, Perkins recorded his journey using techniques and cameras specially adapted by Chris Knight for the project.

The film seeks a high degree of intimacy with the viewer as it superimposes the explorer's thoughts and feelings on the images landscape and wildlife that he encounters during the trip.

The film is the third Knight has produced about solo adventurers. His first, "American Challenge," followed seven different sailors in a transatlantic race and used automatic, on-board cameras to record the drama and loneliness of a single-handed crossing. The second, "Around Alone," used a similar, computer-controlled camera to tell the story of a 53-year-old attempting to be the first American to sail solo and non-stop around the world. It was the lead program in the "Adventure" series in 1987.

Chris Knight's organization is called The New Film

Company, in Arlington, Mass. It's pretty much a solo operation, too. But it's not new; it's celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.