WHAT LIES BENEATH THE OCEAN

Duration: 14 min

Year Published: 1960

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: Sound

Description: Describes various ways in which scientists study the ocean: taking cameras to study plants and animals, going to the deepest ocean floor in such special craft as a bathyscaph, and using instruments on research ships to study bottom materials and to map vast areas of the ocean floor. Points out that scientists have found a long mountain range dividing the Atlantic in two, and, in the Pacific, thousands of volcanoes.

Complete Record: Source: FilmAssoc Interest level: el-jh Guide: Guide Price: $70, color $140 Format: sd b&w Catalog numbers: LC card Fi A 60-1967; EFLA evaluation card No. 4267

Metadata Source:Educational film guide. Supplements (1959-62)