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Post by tomcatpc on Dec 22, 2015 12:56:08 GMT -8
Finally watched this one last night. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cIjgL2lkwAI liked the part where the Divers were messing with Scallops with Sea Stars...really can't blame the Scallops, Sea Stars creep me out as well LOL!!! Anyway, good film, "The Silent World" is the next one I'll watch. Mark |
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Post by technidiver on Dec 22, 2015 14:09:54 GMT -8
Another good JYC film is Voyage to the Edge of the World. I hope you like that one.
TD
P.S My member picture is one of The World Without Sun.
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Post by tomcatpc on Dec 22, 2015 14:33:54 GMT -8
"lobby card" photo of the entrance of the "Deep House"?
Mark
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Post by tomcatpc on Dec 22, 2015 14:34:18 GMT -8
I think my next JYC film I watch will be "The Silent World"?
Mark
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Post by SeaRat on Dec 22, 2015 17:18:30 GMT -8
I have both World Without Sun and Silent World on DVD. I really like both of them.
John
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Post by technidiver on Dec 22, 2015 19:18:09 GMT -8
This is a lobby card of the deep house. I am a collector of JYC, so if you ever have or find any JYC items, tell me!  TD |
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Post by tomcatpc on Dec 22, 2015 19:34:18 GMT -8
I have very little JYC items, other than a copy of "The Silent World", another book of his on paperback, the title of which escapes my mind right now, but it is 1960's vintage, and I have a 1970's era children's book about him that was mine when I was six. Odds are I will not run across anything worth while, but if I do and don't keep it for myself I will pass the info. on to you.
Mark
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Post by tomcatpc on Dec 22, 2015 19:37:11 GMT -8
I was reading some of the reviews of "The Silent World" on youtube and a lot of them were not positive. It was a lot of people complaining about using explosives on reefs, etc. I can see both sides of the argument, but it is a another lifetime from now to when the film was made in the 1950's.
Anyway, I still want to see it. Maybe it will be my late night/early morning film tonight.
Mark
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Post by SeaRat on Dec 22, 2015 20:10:57 GMT -8
Okay, I have to jump in here to JYC's defence, since he has now passed and is unable to respond. The scenes in The Silent World were the first film documentation of the effects of explosives on the reef and its fish. It shows the explosion, and collecting a few fish on the surface by the fishermen. The Cousteau team then dives and documents for the first time ever to the world audience the absolute devastation of the reef fish that are left to rot underwater.
There was another reason for these explosion experiments--to find out their effects on a naked human underwater. Dumas was the subject. And underwater explosions were made progressively closer to him to see their effects on him. Remember that the Cousteau team was also known as the Undersea Research Group, and got funding from the French government. Remember also that there was a war going on in French Indochina, which we now call Vietnam. Some of the Cousteau divers served in that war too, and it is mentioned, I believe, in a short paragraph in Cousteau's The Silent World. These experiments are in the book, but not the movie.
John
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Post by tomcatpc on Dec 22, 2015 20:32:51 GMT -8
looking forward to seeing this film tonight.
Mark
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Post by SeaRat on Dec 23, 2015 12:27:13 GMT -8
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