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Year
1960 (circa)
Video Details
14:10; color; sound; V-28 CA129; S. 828
Description
This film depicts the work of the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District in maintaining the Everglades. There are lots of wildlife and recreational scenes. It includes airboats, deer hunting with hounds, duck hunting, frog gigging, fishing, camping and the Okeechobee Waterway Cross State Boat Cruise. Pedal steel guitars provide the film's background music.
Contributors
Geographic Subject
Title
Million Acre Playground
Subject
Air boats
Boating
Fishing
Flood control--Florida
Hunting
Plants
Promotional films
Recreation
Wildlife
Description
This film depicts the work of the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District in maintaining the Everglades. There are lots of wildlife and recreational scenes. It includes airboats, deer hunting with hounds, duck hunting, frog gigging, fishing, camping and the Okeechobee Waterway Cross State Boat Cruise. Pedal steel guitars provide the film's background music.
Date
1960 (circa)
Contributor
Central and South Florida Flood Control District
Image URL
/fpc/memory/PhotographicCollection/video/million.jpg
Color
color
Video Details
14:10; color; sound; V-28 CA129; S. 828
Video Filename
CA129.mp4
YouTube ID
gJX3--yP8wE
Geographic Term
Caloosahatchee River (Fla.)
Everglades National Park (Fla.)
Kissimmee River (Fla.)
Lake Kissimmee (Fla.)
Lake Okeechobee (Fla.)
Saint Johns River (Fla.)
Video Snippet
Maintaining the Everglades...
Video Time
14:18
Video Category
4
Thumbnail
/fpc/memory/omeka_images/video/thumbnails90px/million.jpg
Digitized
true
Chicago Manual of Style
Million Acre Playground. 1960 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/232446>, accessed 27 December 2024.
MLA
Million Acre Playground. 1960 (circa). State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 27 Dec. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/232446>