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Secrets of the Reef. Perhaps the most deeply thrilling of all the recent attempts to reveal on the screen the secrets of the sea (TIME...
Downtown, Secrets of the Reef, at the Exeter, La Strada, at the Kenmore, War and Peace, at the Met, and Bandido, at Loew's State and Orpheum...
...Florida's Marineland Studios by a group of three young men who got some of their training at Harvard where they produced in 1949 A Touch of the Times, the only feature length movie which has thus far resulted from the activity of Ivy Films. In Secrets of the Reef, which started out as a twenty minute short, they sought to suggest the way life happens around a reef in the southern Atlantic less from the viewpoint of men than from that of the creatures themselves. There are no humans in the movie; and Producer Alfred Butterfield's commentary intelligently...
...continuity is particularly important because not all of the movie could be shot at the real reef in the Bahamas. The group used Marineland's tanks, for instance, to photograph the birth of 200 sea horses from their father's brood pouch. This sequence, together with those of octupus courtship, the pistol shrimp's theft of an arrow crab's meal, and the molting of a spiny lobster's skin-skeleton somehow make a whole...
...leisurely, following the pace of the creatures. Some themes, like the sea horse's, are really amusing. Though the commentary is occasionally too chatty, it is informative without being ostentatiously so. Thanks to the good taste and restraint of Producer Butterfield and his assistants Secrets of the Reef is a fine movie about...