8mm Forum: MARINE-LIFE IN 'SCOPE?

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Posted by Den Brown (Member # 819) on October 22, 2009, 01:05 PM:

Were there any underwater super 8 short documentaries made in 'scope.

I am looking for stuff like the footage Jacques Cousteau shot.

200ft length would be ideal.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on October 22, 2009, 02:05 PM:

Derann has this one:

TEARS OF THE MOON Pearl diving in Japan 1 x 200' Col SCOPE Price code E

-Sounds interesting!

Posted by Den Brown (Member # 819) on October 22, 2009, 02:14 PM:

Cheers, not sure if I should invest in yet another pearl diving short (I have five).

Worth considering, though. Thanks.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on October 22, 2009, 02:39 PM:

Wow!

-are there that many?

Posted by Den Brown (Member # 819) on October 22, 2009, 06:33 PM:

PEARL DIVERS
TEARS OF THE MOON
PEARL DIVERS OF JAPAN
PEARL DIVING
JAPAN HARVESTS THE SEA
A & M. DENIS: PEARL DIVERS

I'm sure there are others.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on October 22, 2009, 09:09 PM:

6 films could be enough to start a "genre".

What are these films like? Are the divers Scuba equipped or swimmers diving from the surface?

"Tears of the Moon" has always interested me, I just haven't gotten around to buying it yet.

Posted by Den Brown (Member # 819) on October 23, 2009, 03:36 AM:

They dive from a rowing boat led by some old bloke who stays aboard and makes himself tea while the nubile, often topless, young women dive for pearls leaving a wooden pail on the surface to act as a marking buoy cum float. They cover their finger tips to keep them warm - though not their breasts for some odd reason. It no longer exists apart from one area where it is put on as a display for tourists.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iys7ViCGNWE&feature=related

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