Year

n.d.

Video Details

13:40; color; sound; V-66 CA083; S. 828

Description

This film shows harvesting, processing and bidding at the market for Tarpon Springs sponges. It includes the blessing of the fleet and the Epiphany Celebration. At the end is a sequence showing the uses of sponges with voices in an echo chamber chanting, "Needed, needed. Natural sponges. Needed, needed." Produced by Harlley Productions; sponsored by the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Fish and Wildlife Service.

Contributors

Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Fish and Wildlife Service
Harlley Productions

Corporate Subject

Epiphany Celebration

Geographic Subject

Tarpon Springs

Subject

Boats
Celebrations
Economic conditions
Promotional films
Sponge industry