1914Thanhouser Company1,000 feetDocumentary

In de Tropische Zee

Also released as In the Tropical Seas

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The first underwater motion pictures: sharks filmed from inside the Williamson Submarine Tube in the Bahamas in 1914, cut for a Dutch audience.

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Carl Louis Gregory

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Survives as a Dutch release print at EYE Filmmuseum: a fragment of about 9 minutes from The Terrors of the Deep, cut from the 20,000 feet Carl Louis Gregory shot from the Williamson Submarine Tube in Nassau Harbor, April to June 1914. A 2022 FIAF entry lists it as Thirty Leagues Under the Sea. The Dutch title is not in the Thanhouser records or the U.S. trade press; it was taken from Thirty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, released September 14, 1914.