A growing source of silent era film information. This listing is from The Progressive Silent Film List by Carl Bennett. Copyright © 1999-2025 by Carl Bennett and the Silent Era Company. All Rights Reserved.

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Wonders of the Sea
(1922) United States of America
B&W : [?] Four or Five? reels / [?] 3600-5500? feet
Directed by J. Ernest Williamson

Cast: J. Ernest Williamson [the oceanographer], Richard Ross [the stowaway], Asa Cassidy [the artist], Lulu McGrath [the girl], Jack Gardner [the diver], Jay Rescher [the cameraman]

Williamson’s Undersea Wonders, Incorporated, production; distributed by [?] R-C Pictures Corporation through? Film Booking Offices of America, Incorporated [FBO]. / Produced by J. Ernest Williamson. Scenario by J. Ernest Williamson. Cinematography by Jay Rescher. / © 15 October 1922 by Williamson’s Undersea Wonders, Incorporated [LP18799]. © 29 April 1923 by R-C Pictures Corporation [LP18915]. Premiered October 1922 in New York, New York. General release, 29 April 1923. / Standard 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format.

Documentary-Drama.

Survival status: Prints exist in the Österreichisches Filmmuseum film archive [35mm positive]; and in La Cinémathèque française film archive.

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Submarines

Listing updated: 27 November 2023.

References: FilmYearBook-1923 p. iv; Sherwood-Best p. 198 : Website-AFI; Website-ASFFDb.