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14/01/2008: "AQUARIUS - People of the Sea .... movie poster 1970"
This was the last show dates for Aquarius. Looking back at the text today shows the simple attitude we had then.
The public was largely ignorant of anything underwater. The most simple tabloid terms were required.
Anything of an environmental description probably would have gone over the head of even university professors in those times. At least that's I how recall it. You'd go broke trying to show pretty fish films.
Killer whales of San Diego was, in reality part of an oceanarium show using captive killer whales. It was a good sequence which I used in other films for many years. Today it would draw sympathy for tiny tank two large whales lived and performed jumps in. The same oceanarium today is vastly different.
The 'Hawaiian hippy surfers' was a brief scene from a deserted beach on Maui - before development of resorts. New Zealand film censors objected to a few frames of frontal nudity. The "banning" proved to be free government advertising - the screenings did very well as a result, establishing a theatre attendance record for a 16mm film.
The "Lost island paradise" is Kapingamarangi Atoll- (Eastern Caroline Islands) fully covered elsewhere in these archives. Rare pictures today.
"Beatiful mermaids" was a mistake, it was intended to read beautiful mermaids.
If the poster was a postage stamp or a coin, any mistake would make it extra valuable. The print run for this poster was maybe 1,000 copies. Few survive today.
Jocelyn appeared in the re-edited version with extra footage which became Queensland Seafari.
I dropped the dramatic (reconstructed) shark picture from the next poster!
