The Swimming hole

Seemingly a story of a teenage farmboy who has come to the river to fish, this wordlessfilm takes on a deeper meaning, opening out into an allegory on humans and their relationship to the environment. It makes the point that we must understand the delicate natural balance before attempting to interfere with it.

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Credits

production company

King Screen Productions

director

Skeets McGrew

Duration

00:13:27:00

Production places

United States

Production dates

1972

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

010489

Subject categories

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Ecology

Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Nature - Effects of human beings on

Literature → Allegory

Short films

Short films → Short films - United States

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)

16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)

16mm film; Preservation Print (Section 5)

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United States, 1972

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