Ama girls
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Ama girls |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 29 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ben Sharpsteen |
| script | Dwight Hauser |
| production | Ben Sharpsteen, Walt Disney |
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Ama Girls is a 1958 American short documentary film directed by Ben Sharpsteen that won an Oscar at the 31st Academy Awards in 1959 .
content
The film gives a glimpse of the daily routine of the inhabitants of a Japanese fishing village. Each of the residents is in one way or another connected to the sea and what it offers. Particular attention is paid to the so-called Ama Girls, young sporty girls who dive up to 60 feet deep in search of pearls, selected seaweed, sea snails, sea urchins, algae, sea snails and especially the precious abalones, a delicacy coveted in Japan. In addition, the Haliotis species contain bizarrely shaped pearls that shimmer blue, green, gray or bronze. The dives extend over the fishing season from March to September. It also shows how the girls train to cope with their task, how important teamwork is and how much perseverance is needed to be able to reap the benefits of the sea.
It also shows how domestic life is shaped in the fishing village and how close the community is in the village, not only when it comes to processing the sardine catch.
Production, publication
It is a Walt Disney production distributed by the Buena Vista Film Distribution Company. The film is part of Walt Disney's series "People and Places".
Ama Girls premiered in the United States on July 9, 1958. It was released in Sweden on March 21, 1960 and in Denmark under the title Hverdag i Japan on April 27, 1960. The film is also known as Japan Harvests the Sea .
Award
Ben Sharpsteen won an Oscar for his film in the category "Best Documentary Short" at the 1959 Academy Awards. James Algar accepted the award for him. Sharpsteen was also awarded an Oscar that evening for his documentary feature film White Wilderness .
Ama Girls
Photo: Fosco Maraini, 1954
Link to the picture
(Please note copyrights )
Web links
- Ama Girls in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ama Girls on filmaffinity.com (English)
- ↑ Ama Girls on the page d23.com (English)
- ↑ The 31st Academy Awards | 1959 on oscars.org (English)
- ↑ Academy Awards Acceptance Speech on aaspeechesdb.oscars.org (English)