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Wildlife on the Deserts of America’s Great Southwest.

The film is a documentary portraying a struggle as man tries to subdue nature. To prevent flooding and for purposes of land reclamation, the people of the Netherlands struggle and succeed in building a breaker, thereby eliminating the wild inland body of water once known as the Zuider Zee (now called Ijsselmeer).

World famous archer Harold Hill goes hunting for birds, bears and elk.

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Scuba divers explore the waters of the Western Hemisphere, meeting sharks, sting rays, devil fish and barracuda, as well as sea lions, sea elephants, groupers and other denizens of the deep. Filmed along the Bahamas reefs and the California/Mexico coast.

RKO Radio Pictures. Excellent underwater photography in this documentary about deep sea exploration.

Panama City, Florida’s chief of police, Captain Walter Caswell, rounds up illegal fishing boats while fending off sharks and whales. Produced by Raymond J. Friedgen.

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