Films and Videos

Since 1983 The Video Project, a non-profit distributor, has been collecting and circulating films and videos about a variety of environmental subjects.  In the project's catalogues and brochures are films appropriate for ages ranging from first grade to adult.  Among the titles listed that might interest Atlantic Coast-watchers:

• Canary of the Ocean: America's Troubled Reef, 1997.  In this 56-minute video Miranda Smith portrays the decline of North America's only barrier reef off the Florida Keys.  A top award-winner at two film festivals.
• Ocean Fisheries Case Study Series, 1995-98, by David Conover.  Three 15-minute videos cover a range of Maine fishery issues: the impacts of sea urchin harvesting, the decline of the cod fishery, the upsurge of the lobster harvest, and the more general question of how to manage collapsing fish stocks.
• Tunnel Visions: Into the Sea of Uncertainty, Interlock Media 1998.  This set of two 28-minute videos, hosted by oceanographer and marine botanist Sylvia Earle, raises important questions about the giant wastewater treatment facility that has done much to make the waters of Boston Harbor cleaner but, like many other advances in technology, may have created some new problems as well.
• El Nino, a CD-Rom made by REMedia in association with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, provides a wealth of multi-media information about a phenomenon that affects all of us. 

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