Secrets of the Deep

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Movie
German title Secrets of the Deep
Original title Mysteries of the Deep
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1959
length 24 minutes
Rod
script Roy Edward Disney
production Walt Disney
music Oliver Wallace
camera William A. Anderson
Dick Borden
Al Hanson
Stuart V. Jewell
Conrad Limbaugh
George MacGinitie
Nettie MacGinitie
Harry Pederson
Verne Pederson
cut Grant K. Smith

Secrets of the Deep is a 1959 American short film.

action

The depths of the sea have always sparked people's imagination and brought forth legends such as the sea god Neptune and sea monsters of various sizes. Real life under water also appears to some extent unreal, so the manta ray appears out of this world even on closer inspection. After dolphins and the behavior of the whales during the mating season, schools of fish are shown, which are referred to as "nomads of the sea". This is followed by shots of seaweed , sea ​​anemones , bizarre tube worms and sea ​​lilies , sand crabs , and thread snails , but the snail-like creature Navanax inermis , which works like an underwater vacuum . About the feeding behavior of the pipefish and the dark giant grouper ( Epinephelus lanceolatus ), which fall as their potential victim out of total rigidity, the search for accommodation of octopus and cantilever fish are also discussed.

Images of a dolphin birth lead to the joys of mother and father of sea animals. Dolphin pups are even defended against sharks. In the seahorse , the male carries the young and is rightly exhausted after birth. This is followed by the subject areas eat and be eaten. The food chain from squid to scallops to puffer fish is shown, but also camouflage mechanisms to avoid being eaten. The stingray buries itself in the sand for this purpose. The jaw fish, on the other hand, is not after living animals because it is a scavenger. However, he does not like competition from fellow species not far from his cave. At the end, the fight between a lobster, crab, triggerfish, octopus, two morays and another octopus is shown, the starting point of which was that an octopus stole a crab from a triggerfish.

production

The film, shot in Technicolor , was made as part of the True-Life Adventures short film series in collaboration with Marine Studios in Marineland, Florida, the Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory and Friday Harbor Laboratories. The animation sequences in the opening credits are by Joshua Meador and Art Riley . The film's narrator was Winston Hibler . Secrets of the Deep was published on December 16, 1959 and appeared in 2012 on the Disney three-DVD nature film classics in English with German subtitles.

Awards

Secrets of the Deep was nominated in 1960 for an Oscar in the category “ Best Short Film (two film roles) ”, but could not prevail against Histoire d'un poisson rouge .

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