DOI: 10.25549/hancock-ouc17531809
title: The new frontier, 1949?

description: The new frontier, 1949? Documentary which was created using footage from the 1949 scientific exploration cruises of the Velero IV in the Gulf of California and off Catalina Island. Narrated by John Garth.“The Allan Hancock Foundation presents The New Frontier. Technical advisors: Maurice Nelles, Ph.D., Kenneth O. Emery, Ph.D., John Garth, Ph.D., Yale Dawson, Ph.D. Photography by William Fortin, John Tyler.” – title credits.Present are: geologist Jerry Barnard, botanist Dr. Yale Dawson, marine geologist Robert Dill, marine geologist Kenneth O. Emery, Captain Allan Hancock, Dr. Mayer, engineer Dr. Maurice Nelles, chief Officer Fred Ziesenhenne.Includes discussion or mention of: A-frame, anchors, aquaria, bathythermographs, benthographs, cameras, dredge boats, dredges, launches, rowboats, scuba divers, skiffs, snapper samplers, tow nets, Velero IV, winches. Also marine life: armored sea star (Nidorellia armata), basket star (Astrocaneum spinosum), bat stingray (Longiorostris[?]), blacksmith (Chromis punctipinnis), bone fish (Albula vulpes), box crab (Cycloes), brittle star (Ophionereis, serpent star), calico crab, California sea lion, cancer crab, coffee bean shell, cookie star (Anthaster), crinoid, decorator crab (Loxorhynchus), diatom, dolphin, dorippoid crab (Ethusa amercana), dromid crab (Dromidia sarrabuei), elbow crab (Parthenopid), elephant seal, Eumunida, flat worm (black apparition), foraminifera, Garibaldi, giant bladder kelp (Macrocystis), glass shrimp, great sea turtle, guitarfish (shovelnose shark), hermit crab, jelly fish (giant medusa, Pelagica, hydrozoan medusa, Coelenterate), kelp bass, lemon-peel Nudibranch (Archdoris), leopard eel (Myrichthys tigrinus), lycosid crab (Ilyahampa hancockiae), mantis shrimp (Stomatopod), moray eel (Gymnothorax mordax), octopus, Ogilveilla (brachiolate), peanut worm (Sipuncula), plankton, polychaete worm (Eunice), porpoise, purple Flabellina (iodinea), purple-fluted Nudibranch, ray or skate (Urobatis concentricus), red algae, regal star (Astropecten regalis, Asterope), rock lobster (Florida crayfish), sand crab (Emerita), scale worm (Polynoid), sea cucumber (Leptosynaptid, Holothurian), sea elephant, sea horse (Hippocampus), sea lily (crinoid Florometra), sea lion, sea pen (Pennatulid), sea slug (Medibank glossodoris, sea nymph), sea snail (Cassis), sea snake (Pelamidris platurus [Pelamis platurus?]), sea spider (Pycnogonida), sea star (Coronaster, Stylasteria, Hippeutister californicus), sea urchin (Astropyga), seaweed, sheepshead, shrimp (Gnathophylum panamense, Munida, Penaeid, Pleuroncodes, Stenopus), spider crab (Araleptis[?]), Libinia mexicana), spiny lobster, sponge, squid (Loligo), staghorn kelp (Mycelia[?]), stingray (Urobatis), surfgrass (Phyllospadix), titan shell (coat of mail shell), tube worm, turban shell (Callistoma), unsegmented worm (Nemertean micrura), whale, worm (Nemertean, Sipunculoid).Also places: Campbell island, Caribbean Sea, Coronado Island, Galápagos Islands, Guadalupe island, Gulf of California, lower California, Monterey, Panama, San Benito Island, San Diego, southern California, South Georgia."'The new frontier' release print" -- container. On gray metal reel (1600-feet); A-wind; emulsion in; color; positive; sound - opt. - monophonic. 24 frames per second, 1599 feet.