Year

1964 (circa)

Video Details

12:53; color; sound; V-74 BA019; S. 828

Description

This film begins with aerials of a Fort Lauderdale airboat ride, swamp buggies in Naples, Corkscrew Swamp, animals along the Wakulla River and Cypress Gardens. It then shows a chrysanthemum farm, Castillo de San Marcos (St. Augustine), Bok Tower and Citrus Tower. Stephen Foster Memorial is next with nice scenes of a steamboat replica on the Suwannee River. The Keys are shown, including divers in Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park, Marineland with a diver feeding dolphins, loggerheads underwater and laying eggs. Divers in Tarpon Springs and gator wrestling follow. A man catches a cobra by hand and milks venom. There is a rocket launch at Cape Canaveral and an open house at Pensacola Naval Air Station. Produced by Beckley Films in cooperation with FDC; sponsored by Eastern Airlines.

Contributors

Beckley Films
Eastern Airlines
Florida Development Commission

Corporate Subject

Bok Tower Gardens (Lake Wales, Fla.)
Castillo de San Marcos (St. Augustine, Fla.)
Citrus Tower (Clermont, Fla.)
Cypress Gardens (Winter Haven, Fla.)
John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park (Key Largo, Fla.)
Pensacola Naval Air Station
Stephen Foster Memorial Park (White Springs, Fla.)

Geographic Subject

Cape Canaveral
Clermont
Corkscrew Swamp
Florida Keys
Fort Lauderdale
Key Largo
Lake Wales
Marineland
Naples
Pensacola
Saint Augustine
Tarpon Springs
Wakulla River
White Springs
Winter Haven

Subject

Airboats
American alligator
Agriculture
Chrysanthemum
Dolphins
Flowers
Promotional films
Reptiles
Rockets (Aeronautics)
Snakes
Steamboats
Swamp buggies
Transportation
Turtles
Wildlife