Santa Barbara -- Everybody's Mistake (1969, sound)

Description: From NICEM Catalog, 1984:
"Examines the controversies behind the two-million gallon oil leak off the shore of California in 1969. Points out that the smog created by the oil is killing pine trees 6,000 feet above sea level."
From the Our Vanishing Wilderness series, no. 6.

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Subjects: 1960s, Environmental issues, Extractive industries, Animals, Human-animal relationships, Nature

Tags: oil; oil spill remediation; California coastline; oiled birds; grebes; beaches; wildlife rescue; smog; smokestacks; wildlife rehabilitation; Grebes; Avocets; Cormorants; Santa Barbara Mission; Union Oil; offshore oil drilling; oil spill evidence; Fritz Springmann, Union Oil Company; Channel Islands; beach cleanup; sea lions; sea urchins; kelp; jelly fish; scuba diving; underwater footage; abalone; Dr. Gordon Macdonald, Environmental Quality Council; elephant seals; underwater scenes; kelp forests; global warming; climate change; sharks; lobsters; bat rays; cars; freeways; experimental sounds; experimental music; exhaust fumes; forest fires; coral reefs; holding up lobster; tagging grebe; Coast Tide vessel; Alvin Weingand

Film Sponsor:

Creator: Shoshoni Productions, Shelly Grossman

Credits: Producer, Director of Photography and Film Editor: Shelly Grossman
Based on the book: 'Our Vanishing Wilderness' by Mary Louise and Shelly Grossman and John Hamlet, published by Grosset and Dunlop 1969
Script by: Mary Louise Grossman
Narrator: John Hamlet
Music: Barry Kornfeld
Camera operators: Shelly Grossman, Bob Dunn, David Hale
Additional photography: Bob Borden, Union Oil Company
Sound recording: FDM Aronow
Music & effects editor: Paul P. Peterson
Sound mixer: Peter Page, Magno Sound
Assistant to the producer: Judy Fyve
Unit manager: Sheldon Israel
Story supervision & research: Mary Louise Grossman & John Hamlet
Executive producer for NET: David Prowitt

"The producers wish to acknowledge the cooperation of the Undersea Gardens in Santa Barbara, the California Fish and Game Department and the National Park Service."

"This series was made possible in part by grants from the: Ford Foundation, Old Dominion Foundation"


Distributor: National Educational Television (NET); Indiana University; Grosset & Dunlap

Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Prelinger Archives

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date:

Release Date: 1969

Geographical Location: USA; California; Santa Barbara, California; Channel Islands National Park

Genre/Form: documentary, television broadcast

Language: eng

Rights: No copyright notice seen on print.

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: release print

Color: color

Color Process: Eastman Color

Sound or Silent: sound

Film Soundtrack Type: variable area

Edge Code:

Frame Rate: 24 fps

Length (feet): 1047