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Secrets Of The Sea

Reel Number: 221265-07

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1930s

Country: Australia

Location: Great Barrier Reef

TC Begins: 16:06:27

TC Ends: 16:16:30

Duration: 00:10:03

Secrets Of The Sea Efftee Film Productions (very early Australian sound film producer) The Great Barrier Reef Series by Noel Monkman (very early diving cameraman) Towing silk net to gather microscopic animal life, emptied into glass & examined w/ magnifying glass. Microscopic life seen thru microscope. Diatoms & others shown. 16:09:28 Baby starfish; other microcopic creatures fish w/ lines they produce. Baby stge of crab. Plankton. 16:10:47 Man gathering microscopic weed plants in tidal pools. Low power micrscope showing find. 16:12:28 Dragging small net along bottom & retrieving animals & plants which are similar as microscopic. Ghost shrimp feeding, then eaten by jelly fish. 16:14:22 Sea urchin; spines sliced into thin slices to show patterns. Man cutting sea slug eggs from rock & microscope showing their movement w/ embryos moving inside egg. The End Early Science Film; Educational Film; Nature Study; Biology; Botony;

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