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Editor's Note
This collection features five early cinematic productions featuring ships and sailing: AROUND THE HORN (1933), THE SQUARE RIGGER (1932), SHIP AHOY (1928), DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS (1922), and Cecil B. DeMille?s THE YANKEE CLIPPER (1927).
| Features | Around the Horn in a Square Rigger (1933) was filmed by noted sailor and author Alan Villiers documenting the record-breaking 83-day voyage of the 1902 barque Parma from Australia to England in the 1933 Grain Race. Villiers writes, ?We wanted to make a picture that would capture some of the stirring beauty of these ship?some glimmer of understanding of the attraction which they hold over those who sail in them.? Music by Eric Beheim. |
| The Square Rigger (1932), an early sound short filmed as part of Fox?s Magic Carpet of Movietone, shows life aboard the schoolship Dar Pomorza, ?The White Frigate.? Built in 1909 as the Prinzess Eitel Friedrich, it was ceded from Germany to France as a prize of World War I, and donated to the Polish State Maritime School in 1930 where it served 50 years and trained more than 13,000 cadets. |
| Ship Ahoy (1928) is a unique record of the conditions and traditions of the North American lumber trade featuring an unidentified schooner equipped with a fore and aft rig as it transports lumber from the Carolinas up the coast to a northern port. Music by Eric Beheim. |
| The collection is rounded off with a ten-minute sequence from Down to the Sea in Ships (1922) documenting an authentic whale hunt from the 1878 wooden ship Wanderer out of New Bedford, Massachusetts. The cameramen risk their lives to capture practices unchanged since Herman Melville immortalized them in Moby Dick. Music by Dennis James |
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Eggbert Records |
| Release Date: 4/14/2009 |
| Running Time: 130 minutes |
| Catalog ID: 6743 | | UPC: 00617311674396 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Video: B&W |
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