Synopsis
Production in collaboration with Hopkins Marine Station and H.E. McMinn presented by Standard of California in 1942. The film is narrated by John Grover, and it educates on four categories of specimens found on Californian shorelines. Coelenterata hollow-bodied animals, Echinodermata spiny-skinned animals, Mollusca soft-bodied animals, and Arthropoda animals with Jointed Feet are explained with close-up footage of collected specimens in aquariums at the Hopkins Marine Station. Two men fishing on a speedboat next to the platform (00:20). Waves crashing over a rock (00:27). “Seashore Oddities” title banner (00:36). Credits (00:40). Views of the shoreline in the Monterey peninsula in California (00:52). Rocks from the shoreline are turned over (01:41) revealing sea life such as starfish attached to the rock (01:46). Specimen is collected from the sand and rocks of the shoreline and put into buckets (02:02). The first group of the specimen collected is titled “Coelenterata Hollow-Bodied Animals” (02:36). In this category are hydroids (02:41). A bell jellyfish (03:16). Anthozoa (Actinozoa) or flower animals (03:45). Sea anemone feeding of brine shrimp and small fish through their tentacles (04:17). The second group of the specimen collected is titled “Echinodermata Spiny-Skinned Animals” (05:23). Starfish, part of the Echinodermata kind (05:28). Views of a starfish squatting over a shellfish to tear it from the rock with its ‘suckers’ (07:44). Close-up footage of the starfish’…
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Details
- Running time
- 21 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Santa Barbara
- Seashore Oddities
- William Harold Oliver Jr
- Hopkins Marine Station
- John Grover
- Jointed Feet
- Rachel Carson
- The Sea Around Us
- William Oliver
- Standard Oil Company
