The Fight for Life: The Struggle for Survival Under the Sea (1930, silent)

Description: Science film dramatizing interactions among sea creatures.

"THE FIGHT FOR LIFE: The Struggle for Survival under the Sea

Beneath the sea we find the fight for life proceeding at its most ferocious pace. The panther shark falls victim to the giant lobster. The lobster in turn is stunned by the electric ray. The cuttle-fish escapes either by clouding the water, or by hiding in the sand, or by changing his color. The octopus engages the lobster in a battle from which only one participant emerges alive. A “struggle for existence” and the survival of the fittest."

UFA Educational Talking Motion Pictures

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Notes on can: Mogull Bros No. 15441 / UFA

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Subjects: Nature; Animals

Tags: biology, aquatic life, sea life, oceans, competition, aquarium, strategy, survival; sharks; lobsters; rays; intertitles; cuttlefish; octopus; underwater photography; micrography; Darwinian struggle; survival of the fittest

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Creator: UFA

Credits: Edited and titled by W.R. Sassaman, Walden School, New York City

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Mogull Bros.

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

Production Date: 1930

Release Date: 1930

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Genre/Form: educational

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Rights: "Copyrighted MCMXXX by UFA Films, Inc."

Film Format: 16mm film

Element: reduction print

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

Film Soundtrack Type: mos

Edge Code: triangle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 333