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Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
Documentary · 1898
Divers go to work on a wrecked ship (the battleship Maine that was blown up in Havana harbour during the Spanish-American War), surrounded by curiously disproportionate fish.
The sides of Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
- Divers on a sunken battleship
- Fish swimming past, oddly large
- An 1898 underwater scene made in a studio
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine" is good for you if…
- you love the very first films, silent and from the 1890s.
- you like odd little curiosities, like fish far too big next to the divers.
- you're curious how cinema showed the news of the Maine in 1898.
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine" is bad for you if…
- you want a full evening, and this lasts about a minute.
- you need people with a story to follow.
About: early cinema · the sea · the news
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