| 11-Mar-57 | 11-Mar-57 | | American alligator
Beaches
Birds
Home movies
Spoonbills | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
11-Mar-57
- Date
- 1957-03-11
- Description
- This is home movie footage of spoonbill birds in flight and on the beach. There are also a few shots of alligators.
- Collection
| A Florida River, Its Wildlife: A Look at St. Lucie River | A Florida River, Its Wildlife: A Look at St. Lucie River | | American alligator
Birds
Florida black bear
Florida panther
Mammals
Promotional films
Reptiles
Tourism
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/ba098.jpg |
A Florida River, Its Wildlife: A Look at St. Lucie River
- Date
- 1950 (circa)
- Description
- This film shows a trip down the St. Lucie River with E.W. Dutton. Viewers see gators, blue herons, and many plants and flowers. The film also shows a red-shoulder hawk, sandhill crane, armadillo, black bear and cub, rattlesnake, land crab, and a gator being fed by hand. Viewers see pelicans, mullet, cormorant, deer and a Florida panther. The film series is incomplete.
- Collection
| Alligator! | Alligator! | | American alligator
Everglades National Park (Fla.) -- Environmental conditions
Flood control -- Florida | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/alligator.jpg |
Alligator!
- Date
- 1970 (circa)
- Description
- Describes the alligator as a keystone species. Introduces the symbol of the Flood Control District, a cartoon alligator called Freddy. Brings in the job of the Flood Control District. Says that alligators help the Flood Control District by digging holes that become storage ponds. A natural history film showing most of the Everglades residents while promoting the Flood Control District.
- Collection
| ANIMAL KINGDOM: ALLIGATOR ADVENTURE | ANIMAL KINGDOM: ALLIGATOR ADVENTURE | | American alligator
Game laws
Hunting
Poaching
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
ANIMAL KINGDOM: ALLIGATOR ADVENTURE
- Date
- 1970 (circa)
- Description
- This episode of the popular television series "Animal Kingdom" focuses on the American Alligator. Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish officers Ronald Davis and William King track down two poachers who are illegally hunting and skinning alligators to sell the hides on the black market. Shot in the Wakulla River area, this film also contains extensive footage of Florida wildlife. Produced by Bill Barrud Productions.
- Collection
| BROWARD: THE GOLDEN COUNTY | BROWARD: THE GOLDEN COUNTY | | American alligator
Amusement parks
Attractions
Beaches
Economic conditions
Gambling-Florida
Industry
Promotional films
Recreation
Seminole Indians
Tourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
BROWARD: THE GOLDEN COUNTY
- Date
- 1960 (circa)
- Description
- This film shows a little of Port Everglades and then other features in Broward County such as the airport, Pioneer City ("old west" attraction), crowds on the beach and fishing. It also shows hospitals, churches, condos, Nova University, some industry, pari-mutuel wagering, sports and nightlife. It also has Seminoles gator wrestling, the Everglades and Birch State Park. Produced by David W. Hunter & Associates; sponsored by Broward County Commission.
- Collection
| Dragons of Paradise-Part I | Dragons of Paradise-Part I | | American alligator
alligators
conservation
environment
University of Florida
biologists
herpetology
herpetologists
television
commercial hunting | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/dragons.jpg |
Dragons of Paradise-Part I
- Date
- 1977-12-05
- Description
- This film is part one of a two-part program on Florida alligators. The film describes how the alligator survived for millennia, only to be hunted to near extinction in the 20th century. Several of Florida's authorities on alligators, including Dr. Archie Carr of the University of Florida, Tommy Himes, David Deets of the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission and alligator expert Ross Allen, provide enlightening information on Florida's most famous and least understood native resident. Produced by WFSU-TV.
- Collection
| Dragons of Paradise-Part II | Dragons of Paradise-Part II | | American alligator
alligators
conservation
environment
poachers
commercial hunting
biologists
University of South Florida
University of Florida | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/dragons2.jpg |
Dragons of Paradise-Part II
- Date
- 1977-12-05
- Description
- This film is part two of a two-part program on Florida's most recognized reptile. Part two deals with the results of human encroachment into the alligator's habitat. Concern for alligator population led to the addition of the alligator to the endangered species list. However, complaints of nuisance alligators and population growth caused them to be removed from the list after only few years of federal protection. John and Roland Denise, former poachers turned state-sanctioned "gator hunters," are shown on a hunting trip. Roland proudly displays a large axe he calls a "convincer" because it helps convince alligators to get into his boat. Ecologist Roy MacDiarmid of the University of South Florida and Dr. Archie Carr of the University of Florida scorn the Florida Game Commission's decision to allow the sale of alligator hides gathered by hunters. Produced by WFSU-TV
- Collection
| EVERGLADES WILDLIFE | EVERGLADES WILDLIFE | | American alligator
Birds
Deer
Mammals
Reptiles
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
EVERGLADES WILDLIFE
- Date
- n.d.
- Description
- This film shows scenes of otters, opossums, raccoons, deer, rattlesnakes, turtles and gators in the Everglades. There are shots of Glades islands that are rookeries, including storks, eggs in a nest, chicks in a nest, cormorant chicks in a nest, limpkins, roseate spoonbills, herons, skimmers, an owl, and an osprey and its young.
- Collection
| FLORIDA ATTRACTIONS | FLORIDA ATTRACTIONS | | American alligator
Amusement parks
Attractions
Promotional films
Tourism
Water skiing
Water sports
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
FLORIDA ATTRACTIONS
- Date
- n.d.
- Description
- This film shows the wildlife that abounds at Silver Springs, skiers at Cypress Gardens, Rainbow Springs, Homosassa Springs and the Sarasota Jungle Gardens. This is a chopped-up print that was reassembled. The Homosassa sequence has a model dressed as an "Indian" who feeds the alligators fish and marshmallows.
- Collection
| FLORIDA GIANT REPTILES | FLORIDA GIANT REPTILES | | American alligator
Crocodile
Loggerhead turtle
Reptiles
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
FLORIDA GIANT REPTILES
- Date
- n.d.
- Description
- This film has a few shots of the Florida crocodile, scenes of gators in the wild and shots of a man with a gator skull. There is a great sequence of a game warden handling a nuisance gator in which the warden's thumb is bitten and the gator's jaws are pried apart to free the thumb. The gator is hog-tied, muzzled with thick rope, strapped to the hood of a jeep and released into a river. Loggerhead turtles are shown swimming and laying eggs. Viewers also see their eggs hatching and their young heading for the water.
- Collection
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