Underground Wonderland: The Story of Meramac Caverns

Duration: 400 ft.

Year Published: 1950

Complete Record: Traveling down country road w/ trees. Map of Meramac Caverns superimposed over shot of lake. Map of Missouri - illustration of Native Americans, European settlers in a boat. Cowboy toes w/ barrels of gunpowder in cave - explosion. Cowboys on horses, train robbers, gunfighters. Cut to: modern shot of people walking into cave. Tour guide shines flashlight on cave walls, people watch, cave walkway. Wax figures of cowboys in cave. Different shots of cave: auditorium chairs set up in open space in cave (shows how big it is), more cave shots, water running through it, stalactites (CU). Stalagmites, little girl touches them. Zoom in on water dripping from stalactite. Kids touch cave ceiling, different rock formations, more stalactites Camper leaves campground, people standing at lake, 2 people carry canoes on heads (MS).