A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan introduced different arthropods in the sea including lobsters, shrimps and crabs.
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A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan introduced the birds living on the sea and explained their ways of making a livings from the sea. Basically there are two groups of birds: long wing flying birds and heavy body short wing birds, such as skimmer, puffin and penguin. He also explored a gulf island and showed the birds living there, including cormorant and pigeon guillemot.
Subjects:
Sea birds; Cormorants
Subjects Facet:
Sea birds; Cormorants
Publisher:
CBC Vancouver
Contributors:
McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010; Bray, Ken
Date:
1957-08-15T00:00:00.000+00:00
Date searchable:
1957;
Genre:
video recordings
Genre Facet:
video recordings
Format:
mp4
Identifier:
CBUT-9453-4
Source:
mp4
Language:
eng
Language Facet:
eng
Relation:
Metadata by M. He
Rights:
This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.
A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan introduced the physical characteristics of whales, the largest mammals in the world, and explained their adaptation to the ocean environment.
Subjects:
Whales; Marine mammals
Subjects Facet:
Whales; Marine mammals
Publisher:
CBC Vancouver
Contributors:
McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010; Bray, Ken
Date:
1958-01-19T00:00:00.000+00:00
Date searchable:
1958;
Genre:
video recordings
Genre Facet:
video recordings
Format:
mp4
Identifier:
CBUT-9458-5
Source:
mp4
Language:
eng
Language Facet:
eng
Relation:
Metadata by M. He
Rights:
This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.
A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan used pink salmon as an example to introduce the most important fish in BC. It showed how salmon were hatched in a fish hatchery.
Subjects:
Salmon; Fish hatcheries
Subjects Facet:
Salmon; Fish hatcheries
Publisher:
CBC Vancouver
Contributors:
McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010; Bray, Ken
Date:
1957-09-18T00:00:00.000+00:00
Date searchable:
1957;
Genre:
video recordings
Genre Facet:
video recordings
Format:
mp4
Source:
mp4
Language:
eng
Language Facet:
eng
Relation:
Metadata by M. He
Rights:
This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.
A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan introduced the methods and equipment people use to study the deep sea and deep sea creatures. He also showed the diving picture from the sea surface to 13,000 feet deep and introduced the creatures living there, including sea fans, sponges, deep water shrimps, octopus and fishes.
This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.
A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan introduced undersea living and related problems, including breath, motion, sight, pressure and food searching. He used some examples to explain the way of different creatures living in the water, such as sea slug, sea skate, scallop, shrimp, sea snake, octopus, penguin, etc.
Subjects:
Marine animals; Fishes
Subjects Facet:
Marine animals; Fishes
Publisher:
CBC Vancouver
Contributors:
McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010; Bray, Ken
Date:
1957-07-25T00:00:00.000+00:00
Date searchable:
1957;
Genre:
video recordings
Genre Facet:
video recordings
Format:
mp4
Identifier:
CBUT-9451-2
Source:
mp4
Language:
eng
Language Facet:
eng
Relation:
Metadata by M. He
Rights:
This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.
A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan introduced the highly intelligent ocean mammals: dolphin, porpoises and whales. He explained their physical characteristics, brain size and how people train them in aquarium.
Subjects:
Marine mammals; Whales; Dolphins
Subjects Facet:
Marine mammals; Whales; Dolphins
Publisher:
CBC Vancouver
Contributors:
McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010; Bray, Ken
Date:
1958-03-23T00:00:00.000+00:00
Date searchable:
1958;
Genre:
video recordings
Genre Facet:
video recordings
Format:
mp4
Identifier:
CBUT-9464-1
Source:
mp4
Language:
eng
Language Facet:
eng
Relation:
Metadata by M. He
Rights:
This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.
A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. In the last part of this series, Dr. Cowan introduced the Vancouver Aquarium and different sea creatures in it. He explained how people take care of the aquarium and the equipment and system used there.
Subjects:
Vancouver Aquarium; Marine animals; Aquatic animals
Subjects Facet:
Vancouver Aquarium; Marine animals; Aquatic animals
Publisher:
CBC Vancouver
Contributors:
McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010, Bray, Ken
Date:
1958-04-06T00:00:00.000+00:00
Date searchable:
1958;
Genre:
video recordings
Genre Facet:
video recordings
Format:
mp4
Identifier:
CBUT-9466-1
Source:
mp4
Language:
eng
Language Facet:
eng
Relation:
Metadata by M. He
Rights:
This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.
A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. Dr. Cowan introduced some ancient fishes which have existed for hundreds of million years. He described the physical characteristics and the ways of reproduction of lampreys, sharks and skates. He also showed the family tree of sharks.
Subjects:
Paleontology; Sharks; Skates (Fishes)
Subjects Facet:
Paleontology; Sharks; Skates (Fishes)
Publisher:
CBC Vancouver
Contributors:
McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010; Brey, Ken
Date:
1958-03-30T00:00:00.000+00:00
Date searchable:
1958;
Genre:
video recordings
Genre Facet:
video recordings
Format:
mp4
Identifier:
CBUT-9465-1
Source:
mp4
Language:
eng
Language Facet:
eng
Relation:
Metadata by M. He
Rights:
This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.
A series of documentary kinescopes with filmed inserts dealing with the sea and sea life. Hosted by Ian McTaggart-Cowan. . Dr. Cowan use eelgrass as an example to introduce seagrass. Eelgrass provides one of the richest small habitats for different creatures to live together, including marine invertebrates like shrimp and stalked jellyfish, and small fishes like perch and rock cod.
Subjects:
Marine ecology; Seagrasses; Zostera marina
Subjects Facet:
Marine ecology; Seagrasses; Zostera marina
Publisher:
CBC Vancouver
Contributors:
McTaggart-Cowan, Ian, 1910-2010; Bray,Ken
Date:
1958-01-12T00:00:00.000+00:00
Date searchable:
1958;
Genre:
video recordings
Genre Facet:
video recordings
Format:
mp4
Identifier:
CBUT-9457-2
Source:
mp4
Language:
eng
Language Facet:
eng
Relation:
Metadata by M. He
Rights:
This item is the property of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and is provided for research purposes only. For use other than research, permission must be acquired from the CBC.