Year

1947

Video Details

16:00; color; silent; V-177 H-5

Description

This home film begins with a short segment showing African-American men and women putting up shade cloth for a tobacco field. It then switches to Fort San Marcos and St. Augustine. It shows attractions such as the Fountain of Youth, the Oldest House and the burial grounds of the Timucuan Indians. It then shows the Marine Studios Entrance. The camera is shooting through the portholes that show fish, turtles, eels and porpoises. They are billed as the only captive porpoises in the world.

Corporate Subject

Castillo de San Marcos National Monument (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
Fountain of Youth (Saint Augustine, Fla.)
Marineland
Oldest House (Saint Augustine, Fla.)

Geographic Subject

Marineland
Saint Augustine

Subject

African American
Attractions
Fish
Porpoises
Promotional films
Timucuan Indian
Tobacco industry
Tourism