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Collection ID is exactly "13" AND Subject is exactly "Sponge industry"
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SPONGE: TREASURE FROM THE SEA

SPONGE: TREASURE FROM THE SEA

Date
n.d.
Description
This film shows harvesting, processing and bidding at the market for Tarpon Springs sponges. It includes the blessing of the fleet and the Epiphany Celebration. At the end is a sequence showing the uses of sponges with voices in an echo chamber chanting, "Needed, needed. Natural sponges. Needed, needed." Produced by Harlley Productions; sponsored by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Fish and Wildlife Service.
Collection
SPONGE: TREASURE FROM THE SEA

SPONGE: TREASURE FROM THE SEA

SUMMER TRIPS

SUMMER TRIPS

Date
1947
Description
This home movie begins with the filming of a passing train through a car window. Next are downtown scenes of Tarpon Springs, the waterfront and Greek sponge boats. The family boards one of the boats and goes out with the sponging crew. There are scenes of a diver suiting up in his diving outfit and going into the water. The Tarpon Springs Sponge Exchange is shown, and then the film moves on to film crews at Cypress Gardens shooting Jantzen bathing suit commercials.
Collection
SUMMER TRIPS

SUMMER TRIPS

Identifier Title Type Subject Thumbnail
SPONGE: TREASURE FROM THE SEA SPONGE: TREASURE FROM THE SEA Boats
Celebrations
Economic conditions
Promotional films
Sponge industry		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
SUMMER TRIPS SUMMER TRIPS Amusement parks
Attractions
Bathing suits
Boats
Economic conditions
Sponge industry
Promotional films
Trains		/fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg
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