Living sea 07 (1957-06-13) : beneath the sand

A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan introduced the sea animals who could bury themselves in sand for entire life. The sand protects those animals from fishes in high tides and birds in low tides. He showed the top shell sea snail, the horse clam and the parasite in their shells: pea crab, geoducks (the largest pacific clam) and their siphon system, cockle clam, butter clam, and jackknife clam. He also showed other sea creatures on the sand habitat including the sea worms and sand shrimps.

In Collection:

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Contributor

• Bray, Ken
• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Subject

• Marine ecology
• Bivalves
• Marine biology
• Intertidal animals
• Clams
• Beaches
• Tides
• Intertidal ecology
• McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010

Publisher

• CBC Vancouver

Language

• eng

Identifier

• CBUT-9446-1

Date created

• June 13, 1957

Resource type

• Moving Image

Rights statement

• In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted

Extent

• 1 film reel (00:28:48) : black and white ; 16 mm

Alternative title

• Living sea show 7

Physical repository

• Physical item housed at CBC Vancouver.

Collection

• Ian McTaggart Cowan Collection

Provider

• University of Victoria (B.C.). Library

Sponsor

• Digitization undertaken with the support of Ann Schau.

Genre

• documentary film
• video recordings (physical artifacts)
• television programs

Technical note

• mp4. Digitization of the films was contracted by the CBC. Metadata by M. He. Migration metadata by KD.

Rights

• This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.

DOI

•  https://doi.org/10.58066/ed4g-ab71