dy14nv31d3 Posted October 13, 2016 Share Posted October 13, 2016 Hello, I've been searching for this short documentary film for quite a while and was wondering if anyone can help? It was probably about 2 years ago I saw a WB full color short from the 60's on TCM about about a small sailing sea research exhibition from California, around S. America (or maybe through the Panama Canal), featuring a stopover in Jamaica. From what I can recall it was about 10-15 minutes, it featured fantastic full color underwater views of coral and associated wildlife. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lhowe Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 Wasn't the narrator Errol Flynn? It was sort of a mini documentary, but not the real deal, and I remember something about research, but....maybe a helicopter picked him up and took him to the coast to board the ship. I remember him saying something about "not everybody gets to go this way..." or something like that and he ran across the grass to get on the 'copter. I'm not a huge Flynn fan, but I really liked the guy in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MilesArcher Posted October 14, 2016 Share Posted October 14, 2016 If it was Errol Flynn, then it's a 1952 short called "Cruise Of The Zaca". Here is the IMDB summary: From his Hollywood home, Errol Flynn copters to La Jolla's Scripps Institution of Oceanography for a few days. Inspired by the sight of a pod of gray whales, Flynn, his father (an oceanographer), and Dr. Hubbs from Scripts take Flynn's schooner, the Zaca, for a specimen-collecting trip down the coast, through the Panama Canal, and on to a southern port in Jamaica. Flynn's wife Nora joins them; his dad, Hubbs, and John Decker, an artist, turn the Zaca into a floating research lab. The Flynns take a raft for a day trip upriver to a Jamaican waterfall. There's an evening of dancing, then it's back to the sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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