Year

1960 (circa)

Video Details

6:50; color; sound; V-116 BA011; S 828

Description

This film shows odd occupations at Florida's Silver Springs and Weeki Wachee Springs. At Silver Springs, William Crowell, senior glass-bottom boat captain, takes visitors on a tour down the Silver River. Max Hooten, underwater gardener, is then shown clipping eel grass in the spring. Jack McCurchen and Mike Mouse scrub the underwater windows of the glass-bottom boats while wearing scuba gear. The film them moves to Weeki Wachee Springs where John Hamlet, animal psychologist, feeds the animals during a tour on the Congo Belle. There is footage of the Otter-Torium and Snoball the heron. Finally, Marilyn Nagel, producer and trainer of the mermaids, choreographs a show from inside the underwater theater. This film ends abruptly.

Corporate Subject

Otter-Torium (Weeki Wachee Springs, Fla.)
Congo Belle (Steamboat)
Underwater Theatre (Weeki Wachee Springs, Fla.)

Geographic Subject

Marion County
Silver Springs (Ocala, Fla.)
Silver Springs (Fla. : Spring)
Silver River
Weeki Wachee Spring (Fla. : Spring)
Weeki Wachee River
Weeki Wachee
Hernando County

Personal Subject

Crowell, William
Hamlet, John
Tooten, Mack
McCurchen, Jack
Nagel, Marilyn
Mouse, Mike

Subject

Attractions--Florida
Glass bottom boats
Mermaids
Synchronized swimmers
Performing arts--Florida--Hernando County--Weeki Wachee
Springs--Florida--Hernando County--Weeki Wachee
Springs--Florida--Ocala
Sightseeing business
Captive wild animals