Water: Fountain of Life

Duration:

Year Published: 1950

Creator: Standard Oil of California

Complete Record: A film detailing the water cycle. Initial shots of the ocean, the sky, waves crashing into shore and a seagull in flight. Shots of large cargo and tanker ships, commercial tuna fishing, people laying on the beach and swimming in the ocean. Shot of a rotating model earth. Shot of a water skier and a golfer attempting to play in the heavy rain. A man walks with a donkey though a desert filled with Joshua trees. The man drinks from a canteen. Shots of a rocky shoreline and the ocean. Shots of cows, snowy mountains, clouds, a desert canyon, a tundra, clouds over cities. Shots of rainstorms, lightning, a DOG hides in a DOGhouse, windshield wipers. Shots of ice melting and feeding streams, rain feeding rivers which grow bigger and bigger and eventually flow into the ocean.