| BOAT CRUISE AT WAKULLA SPRINGS | BOAT CRUISE AT WAKULLA SPRINGS | | Boats
Promotional films
Tourism
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BOAT CRUISE AT WAKULLA SPRINGS
- Date
- 1970-01-04
- Description
- This film begins with scenes of people boarding tour boats. It shows views along the river, including birds and alligators. It includes clips of Edward Ball and Malcolm Johnson.
- Collection
| CARL BUCHHEISTER AT WAKULLA SPRINGS | CARL BUCHHEISTER AT WAKULLA SPRINGS | | Conservation
Drainage
Endangered species
Environmental protection
Interviews
Preservation
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
CARL BUCHHEISTER AT WAKULLA SPRINGS
- Date
- 1970
- Description
- Carl Buchheister, former president of the National Audubon Society, advocates the preservation of Florida's wildlife and natural splendor in an interview at Wakulla Springs Wildlife Refuge. Mr. Buchheister discusses alligators, water conservation, wildlife reserves, citizen involvement in conservation programs, environmental protection legislation, controls on pollution, avoiding thermal pollution from atomic reactors, oil spills, damage caused to lakes from dredging, preservation of the Everglades, the Cross Florida Barge Canal "boondoggle" and the protection of endangered species.
- Collection
| CYPRESS GARDEN GIFT SHOP FILM | CYPRESS GARDEN GIFT SHOP FILM | | Amusement parks
Attractions
Promotional films
Recreation
Tourism
Water skiing
Water sports
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CYPRESS GARDEN GIFT SHOP FILM
- Date
- 1950 (circa)
- Description
- This is a short souvenir film comprised of scenes from Cypress Gardens. Visitors tour the park, take scenic riverboat rides and photograph the young southern belles who stroll the park daily. Produced by Cypress Gardens.
- Collection
| CYPRESS GARDENS | CYPRESS GARDENS | | Amusement parks
Attractions
Birds
Flowers
Gardens
Promotional films
Recreation
Tourism
Water skiing
Water sports
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
CYPRESS GARDENS
- Date
- n.d.
- Description
- This film shows water skiing at Cypress Gardens, including a person in a tiger suit on skis, ballerinas in tutus, skiing barefoot backwards, kite fliers, a skiing clown and an 11-person pyramid. Viewers also see the scenic wonders of the Gardens, including birds, flowers and girls in plantation gowns. Produced by Cypress Gardens.
- Collection
| CYPRESS GARDENS SKI TEACHING SCOOTER | CYPRESS GARDENS SKI TEACHING SCOOTER | | Amusement parks
Attractions
Promotional films
Recreation
Tourism
Water skiing
Water sports
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
CYPRESS GARDENS SKI TEACHING SCOOTER
- Date
- n.d.
- Description
- This film shows a group of 5- to 7-year-old children learning to water ski in a pool shaped like the state of Florida. A three-wheeled motorized cart with a boom arm and ski rope pulls them along in the pool. Then, a youngster and teacher ski on the lake. The film is silent up to this point. Viewers see scenes of tourists, flowers and belles in plantation gowns. Next is a game of outboard water polo, played by four couples in small fiberglass dinghies with a 5-foot diameter beach ball.
- Collection
| CYPRESS GARDENS- 25 YEARS | CYPRESS GARDENS- 25 YEARS | | Amusement parks
Attractions
Conquistadors (Portrayals)
Golf
Native Americans (Portrayals)
Piano
Promotional films
Recreation
Tourism
Water skiing
Water sports
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
CYPRESS GARDENS- 25 YEARS
- Date
- 1960 (circa)
- Description
- This film has a mixture of scenes shot over 25 years (until the early 1960s) at Cypress Gardens. It starts with a short comedy sequence. Then, American Indians dance around a group of ski stars on land and a skier greets a group of American Indians on a beach. Dick Pope drives a golf ball global around the property and goes from shot to shot driving a 1957 Continental pulling a trailer with his golf cart in it. Pope poses with Victor Borge. There is a synchronized swimming sequence, a segment that shows clowns skiing and footage of children jumping rope. Viewers also see the parking lot, ski show shots, hula-hooping Hawaiians, Hawaiians learning to ski, beauty queens and conquistadors parading and posing, a skier and a model in a boat, and Dick Pope playing piano on a raft towed behind a boat as a skier performs to his music. Produced and sponsored by Cypress Gardens.
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| D-Day at Marathon | D-Day at Marathon | | Artificial reefs
Blimps
Boats
Tires
Rubber
Underwater photography
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/ca035.jpg |
D-Day at Marathon
- Date
- 1970 (circa)
- Description
- This film shows the construction of an artificial reef with the help of Goodyear and involved citizens of Marathon. It shows how tires are punched, squeezed and loaded with concrete. Navy LSM and private vessels are loaded with tires. All of them converge and begin dumping. There is underwater photography of tires hitting the bottom and sea life beginning to inhabit the tires. The film shows the Goodyear blimp Mayflower. Produced by Sonny Florida Productions.
- Collection
| Deer Santa | Deer Santa | | Amusement parks
Attractions
Holidays
Promotional films
Tourism
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/AA608.jpg |
Deer Santa
- Date
- n.d.
- Description
- In this film, "Santa's deer and their many cousins meet the happy children" at the International Deer Ranch, which is part of the Silver Springs attraction. Viewers see deer fed by hand, then explore the Florida Frontier (a nature trail) and see Santa at his winter home. The children throw coins into a flaming spring and pet baby animals in the animal nursery. Produced by Hack Swain Productions; sponsored by Florida Development Commission..
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| DELAND/WEST VOLUSIA AREA | DELAND/WEST VOLUSIA AREA | | Amusement parks
Attractions
Bass fishing
Canoeing
Promotional films
Tourism
Underwater photography
Water skiing
Water sports
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
DELAND/WEST VOLUSIA AREA
- Date
- 1977 (circa)
- Description
- This film shows DeLand, Orange City, the Pioneer Art Settlement, bass fishing, water skiing and canoeing. Viewers see manatees in Blue Springs State Park, Hontoon Island State Park, DeLeon Springs, Old Methuselah Cypress Tree, Dunlawton Sugar Mill and Stetson University. The film has underwater photography. Produced by Glen Lau Productions.
- Collection
| DIVERS AT WAKULLA SPRINGS | DIVERS AT WAKULLA SPRINGS | | Diving
Promotional films
Scuba divers
Scuba diving
Springs-Florida-Wakulla County
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
DIVERS AT WAKULLA SPRINGS
- Date
- 1977-04-29
- Description
- This film shows divers in a cavern and near the lip at Wakulla Springs. Viewers see divers swim through the weeds, swim over the lip and swim through a sunken log. Schools of fish are shown. The divers in the cave swim along rocks on the bottom. This portion of the film is too dark. Viewers also see a diver with a mastodon bone.
- Collection
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