| ACCORDING TO SNOWBALL | ACCORDING TO SNOWBALL | | Amusement Parks
Attractions
Birds
Promotional films
Tourism
Wildlife | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/thumbnails/catalog_video.jpg |
ACCORDING TO SNOWBALL
- Date
- n.d.
- Description
- This film is narrated from the viewpoint of an American egret named Snowball who lives on the river at Weeki Wachee. The film shows osprey, limpkin and gallinule, including shots of gallinule nesting. The plot of the film is as follows: A gallinule nest floats away due to the wake of a tour boat. The egret calls for help. A ranger comes to rescue the bird in an outboard and returns the nest to safety. Produced by Weeki Wachee for the Game and Freshwater Fish Commission.
- Collection
| Beauty in the Deep | Beauty in the Deep | | Amusement parks
Attractions
Description and travel
Economic conditions
Mermaids -- Florida -- Weeki Wachee -- History
Promotional films
Synchronized swimming
Tourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/beautyinthedeep.jpg |
Beauty in the Deep
- Date
- 1961-01-21
- Description
- This film begins with a performance by the mermaids at Weeki Wachee. The narrator describes the control it takes for the performers to dive. There are also scenes of eating and drinking underwater.
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| Care and Feeding of a Mermaid | Care and Feeding of a Mermaid | | Amusement Parks
Attractions
Description and travel
Economic conditions
Mermaids -- Florida -- Weeki Wachee -- History
Promotional films
Synchronized swimming
Tourism
Underwater photography | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/mermaid.jpg |
Care and Feeding of a Mermaid
- Date
- 1961-12
- Description
- This film shows how a young woman learns to be a mermaid at Weeki Wachee. Viewers see lessons in breath control, synchronized swimming, diet, modeling, announcing, and how to eat and drink underwater. Parts of a performance are shown. The film uses underwater photography.
- Collection
| Don't Hold Your Breath | Don't Hold Your Breath | | Amusement parks
Attractions
Free diving
Mermaids-Florida-Weeki Wachee
Promotional films
Tourism | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/aa014.jpg |
Don't Hold Your Breath
- Date
- 1966 (circa)
- Description
- In this film, a mermaid at Weeki Wachee demonstrates breath control by diving to the bottom of the spring and performing a free ascent, holding her breath for a total of 2 minutes and 13 seconds. Sponsored by FDC.
- Collection
| Florida Gulf Coast Holiday | Florida Gulf Coast Holiday | | Blue Angels (Flight squadron)
Boating
Circuses
Fishing
Gambling-Florida
Horse racing
Hotels
Major League Baseball
Promotional films
Tarpon fishing
Tourism
Water sports
Water skiing | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/ca028.jpg |
Florida Gulf Coast Holiday
- Date
- 1960 (circa)
- Description
- This film begins in Pensacola. Viewers see Fort Pickens, Blue Angels and the Naval Air Station. The film moves to Panama City, where viewers see people frolicking in the surf and teens with a guitar. In Tallahassee, the film shows Apalachee Parkway toward the Old Capitol, FSU and Killearn Gardens State Park (now Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park). Viewers see Rainbow Springs' "submarine boats" and Weeki Wachee. At Tarpon Springs, a diver puts on a suit and jumps in. Also shown are Tampa Bay hotels, fishing party boats, tarpon fishing, horse and dog races, jai-alai, baseball spring training, golf, boating and skiing. The film also shows Cypress Gardens, Busch Gardens, Sarasota's Horn's Cars of Yesterday and Sarasota Jungle Gardens. Viewers see the Ringling Brothers Circus in Venice, the Edison Home in Fort Myers and the Caribbean Gardens in Naples. Produced by Beckley Films and FDC; sponsored by Eastern Airlines and FDC.
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| "Have Circus, Won't Travel" at Weeki Wachee Springs, ca. 1960 | "Have Circus, Won't Travel" at Weeki Wachee Springs, ca. 1960 | | Underwater Circus (Choreographic work)
Synchronized swimmers
Women entertainers -- Florida -- Hernando County -- Weeki Wachee
Hula hoop toys
Attractions -- Florida -- Hernando County -- Weeki Wachee
Tourism -- Florida -- Hernando County -- Weeki Wachee
Performances (Entertainment events)
Theatrical productions
Circus
Circus performers
Costume
Stage props | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/ba002.jpg |
"Have Circus, Won't Travel" at Weeki Wachee Springs, ca. 1960
- Date
- 1960 (circa)
- Description
- Mermaids perform in the "underwater big top" at Weeki Wachee Springs. The audience in the underwater theater watches as two mermaids perform a ballet routine and hula hoop acrobatics. Then "Willie" the dragon swims by. Mermaids continue the performance with trapeze and high wire acts. The "Janitor" joins the act and performs a pyramid routine with the mermaids. The show ends with a mermaid being pulled through the water on a large seahorse.
- Collection
| fvc908 | Mermaid Turtle Race | Moving Image | Mermaids
Turtles | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/AA536.jpg |
Mermaid Turtle Race
- Date
- Description
- This silent film shows three Weeki Wachee mermaids putting on fins and heading into the spring to find a turtle. Each mermaid finds a turtle and brings it onto the bank for a race. At the end of the race, the other mermaids congratulate the winner and her turtle.
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| Mermaid Who Couldn't Swim | Mermaid Who Couldn't Swim | | Amusement parks
Attractions
Mermaids-Florida-Weeki Wachee
Promotional films
Synchronized swimming
Tourism
Underwater photography | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/BA070.jpg |
Mermaid Who Couldn't Swim
- Date
- 1969 (circa)
- Description
- This film tells the story of a girl applying to become a mermaid at Weeki Wachee. It shows behind-the-scenes situations. This particular girl supposedly cannot swim (except underwater). She learns to perform and reveals that she "can't swim," but it is okay and the film ends.
- Collection
| Odd Occupations | Odd Occupations | | Attractions--Florida
Glass bottom boats
Mermaids
Synchronized swimmers
Performing arts--Florida--Hernando County--Weeki Wachee
Springs--Florida--Hernando County--Weeki Wachee
Springs--Florida--Ocala
Sightseeing business
Captive wild animals | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/ba011.jpg |
Odd Occupations
- Date
- 1960 (circa)
- Description
- This film shows odd occupations at Florida's Silver Springs and Weeki Wachee Springs. At Silver Springs, William Crowell, senior glass-bottom boat captain, takes visitors on a tour down the Silver River. Max Hooten, underwater gardener, is then shown clipping eel grass in the spring. Jack McCurchen and Mike Mouse scrub the underwater windows of the glass-bottom boats while wearing scuba gear. The film them moves to Weeki Wachee Springs where John Hamlet, animal psychologist, feeds the animals during a tour on the Congo Belle. There is footage of the Otter-Torium and Snoball the heron. Finally, Marilyn Nagel, producer and trainer of the mermaids, choreographs a show from inside the underwater theater. This film ends abruptly.
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| Thanksgiving | Thanksgiving | | African American
Amusement parks
Attractions
Birthdays
Celebrations
Home movies
Mermaids
Thanksgiving | /fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/thanksgiving.jpg |
Thanksgiving
- Date
- 1950 (circa)
- Description
- This home movie begins with Thanksgiving dinner at the Russo's. Next is Lance's birthday and opening gifts with Mom and Dad. The film continues with a family visit to the Lewis Plantation. There are scenes of workers' cabins, an African-American child dancing on a deck, and buildings and structures on the plantation. The film continues with scenes of Weeki Wachee Springs and its mermaids and ends with the Gasparilla Celebration in Tampa.
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Listen: The Bluegrass & Old-Time Program
