What's under the ocean?

Duration: 0:14:00

Genre: Educational | Nature

Year Published: 1960

Creator: Film Associates of California: Distributor | Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses animation, models, and live-action photography to picture the methods used by man to explore the ocean depths; and summarizes the basic information which has been gained. Contrasts exploration of the ocean by divers, by using the bathyscape, by sampling the ocean floor, and by electronic soundings. Touches upon a few of the plants and animals found in the ocean; explains the effects of depth on types of marine life; and shows the topography of the floor of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.

Complete Record: , Uses animation, models, and live-action photography to picture the methods used by man to explore the ocean depths; and summarizes the basic information which has been gained. Contrasts exploration of the ocean by divers, by using the bathyscape, by sampling the ocean floor, and by electronic soundings. Touches upon a few of the plants and animals found in the ocean; explains the effects of depth on types of marine life; and shows the topography of the floor of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.