AUSTRALIAN SHARKS - 1960s

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A learning process for underwater cameramen in Australia. Raw footage edited and a dramatic soundtrack added for the weekly newsreel shown in movie cinemas until 1970s. Ron Taylor AM was the camera for these.Features shark bitten free divers Rodney Fox and Henri Bource. Script is not always accurate. An example of how the media saw sharks in the 1960s. Most footage found it's way into TV documentaries by Ron Taylor "Revenge of a Shark Victim" (1965) featuring Rodney Fox. The Shark Hunters (1962) with diver Ben Cropp.