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...picture proves the Aran Islands to be as inhospitable as Director Flaherty could have hoped. Like his other films, it has no professional actors, no narrative structure. It shows an Aran native (Colman King), his wife, their 13-year-old son, fishing, carrying soil in baskets, catching a shark for oil, trudging along cliffs above an angry...
...aware of the fact that the Morro Castle tragedy made heroes of a handful of Coast Guardsmen down the Jersey shore because it has not reached the newspapers. I visited the Shark River Coast Guard Station and had the honor ot meeting Chief Boatswain's Mate M. M. Hymer who, with his crew of four men, picked up 96 living persons from the sea and towed 70 more in other boats, to safety. Their 26-ft. self-bailing surfboat was the first on the scene. They plucked 14 from the sea and rushed them beachward; they returned immediately...
...film shows the daily life of the Aran Islanders, their barren homes where garden soil must be gathered in baskets from crevices in the rock, their frail seagoing curraghs of tarred skins stretched over basketwork frames. High spot in the film is the harpooning of a 30-ft. basking shark by Tiger King & friends...
...Fiume, Italy, Vacationist Zorca Prince opened a letter from her mother, laughed at what she read, plunged into the sea. Her mother had dreamed that if Zorca went swimming a shark would kill her. Far offshore fishermen heard a scream, found a little patch of blood-stained water but no trace of Vacationist Zorca Prince...
...told the President there was good fishing. From its davits the President's special fishing launch splashed into the blue waters. All hands applauded when the President hooked, played and landed a 50 lb. ono (mackerel-like fish). Franklin Jr.'s ono had its tail snapped off by a shark as it was being pulled into the boat. A Marine evened things up by pulling out his gun, shooting the shark...