| Shadows of the Sea | ||
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| Catalog #: | 437078 | |
| Clip Number: | 437078-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | WPA 882 | |
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| Location: | Miami, Florida | |
| Year Shot: | 1970 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | Yes | |
| Headings: | ANIMALS/FISH: Sharks | |
| Description: | ON PREVIEW CASSETTE # 215549 Sharks: what are they good for? Well, this film seems to argue they're perfect fodder for human exploitation in its numerous facets. Food? Clothing? Alternative medicine? Conservation? Fertilizer? Exhibition? To all a resounding yesàà aerials of numerous sharks swimming in clear, shallow warm waters. High angle MS of sharks in aquarium tank. MS sign for Miami Seaquarium. MS crowd gathered at guardrail; MS employee feeding lemon sharks; high angle MS's sharks gnawing on dead feeder fishàà subjective shot boat sailing from coast, Miami Beach skyline in distant BG. LS's Seaquarium cruiser boat sailing, hunting for sharks to return to Seaquarium; MS's men hauling hammerhead shark into cargo bay. Underwater shots of another shark being captured, lured into boat; MS's diver filming event. MS's shark thrashing in bay of boat, the hook being removedàà MS's two burly white men shark hunting ("Conservation") from small powerboat; muscular man in goatee struggles with brown shark; when the shark is at the flank the bearded man spears the animal to death; they pull the dead shark aboard, then drink a beeràà tLS's powerboat entering Mote Marine Laboratory; boat pulls a carriage containing a captured lumen (?) shark; MS's male scientists removing shark from boat and into shark tank via cargo net stretcher; once in the tank the shark attacks another shark. MS's scientist wading in tanks, performing tests on captive sharks. MS's people working on shark attack case files, some including graphic Polaroid pictures of wounds. MS's young woman showing off the harvested mouth of a shark. MS's scientists running bite meter experiment: they cut steaks of meat, wrap it around a meter and then lower it into the tank; underwater shots of lemon and brown sharks swimming by and around meat, one taking the bait; MS's & CU's scientist analyzing bite test under microscopeàà tLS commercial shark boat in deep warm waters, MS's fishermen (young and old, many shirtless) lowering winch into water, catching large tiger shark, raising to stern, shooting it five times with a .45 automatic firearm, then hauling the carcass onboard. MS's, some taken underwater, of the fishermen hauling numerous sharks on board; VO describes the human uses for shark carcasses; CU sharkskin leather cowboy boot; MS's fishermen stacking the carcasses high on boatàà tLS's boat being backed into water by old Chevy Suburban while girl in skimpy black bikini looks on. LS's & MS's powerboat sailing. MS's scuba divers donning gear: mask, snorkel, flippers, underwater camera, apparatus, oxygen tanks, etc. Great underwater shots of hammerhead shark. Underwater shots of divers, one armed with harpoon, the other with film camera. MS's divers and bikini girl on stern, drinking beer. CU/MS man and woman cutting filets of shark meat, cooking them in small smokehouse cabinet on dock; MS/CU's white people eating shark, drinking beer at picnic. | |
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