The Earth Beneath The Sea.

Duration: 10:00

Creator: McGraw-Hill Films

Complete Record: Opening is a aerial shot of the ocean with voiceover talking about how water takes up most of the surface of the earth. Titles Shot of a house in the forest with voiceover. Geological observatory at Columbia University. Shot of a oceanographer studying data. Shot of the ocean with New York City skyline in the background. A boat is coming down through a river as the oceanographer watches through his binoculars. A chart is drawn on a map of the world. Back to the Boat. People are docking the boat so the oceanographer can come aboard. He comes aboard and shakes a bunch of other scientists hands. and they share information. Shot through a window while the boat is on the ocean. A scientist looks at results on a seismograph type of machine. Trying to figure out the depth of the ocean through radio waves and echoes. Animation of this. Plotted results shot exactly what the surface might look like. Shots of the graph. More shots of the graph. With Voiceover. Shot of the oceanographer with a cup of tea. Back in his office trying to figure out how the ocean bottom was formed. Records are compared by scientists. People drawing profiles of the ocean floor. As well as 3D models of sea floor. 3D model of a globe and a fault line that goes completely around the world. Shot of oceanographer and the boat again. People working on the boat, scientists. doing experiments and stuff. Setting up a device to drop into the water to touch the bottom to set off a camera and flash. To take pictures of the bottom of the ocean. Shots from underwater of the camera going in. Then a shot of the line unraveling as the device goes deeper and deeper into the dark ocean. Shot on the floor of the sea of the device hitting the ground. Pictures of the sea floor are seen. Back up to the surface where people are working. They have just got samples of sediment from the bottom. People working on the dock studying the ocean. They pull up a net and begin sampling rocks that they have just collected. Sea Floor! Arial shots of the boat. Use magnet to studying the magnetic force of the earth. Explosions come from under the sea. the scientists use this to study the ocean bottom. The sound travels down as illustrated in an illustration of the process. This reflection is studied. More shots of the seismic activity and the oceanographer studying the data. Back on the boat another explosive device is thrown. Very similar to a hand grenade. Back to oceanography place. Fade to black.