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19/01/2008: "CAPTAIN C.WEED .....tests shark repelling coat on Jocelyn"
Ron Isbell devised the Captain C.Weed character, Jocelyn was his assistant in this 16mm featurette produced especially for the former Melbourne underwater film festival, Oceans.
Re-edited to a shorter version for general audiences it now appears in Australian Seafari as a comedy sequence showing a rubber sea snake attacking (tomato sauce for blood) and this shark repelling coat that actually works - with trick film editing.
Dick Anderson (R.I.P.) who made several comedy films for underwater film festivals. Narrated personally in huge auditoriums, they were often the highlight of the evening, surpassing other action adventure and measured by laughter and applause.
