Technicolor.

Based on the book of the same title by Rachel L. Carson.

SUMMARY: A study of the sea showing its inhabitants and the life along its shore. Pictures the creation of the world and its oceans and discusses the theory that the world may eventually be submerged by water. Submarine photography is used to show the microscopic life in the sea, a fight between a shark and an octopus, birds that fish under water, the capture of a blue whale, the hatching of turtle eggs, and other scenes of marine life.

CREDITS: Producer and author of continuity and commentary, Irwin Allen; narrators, Don Forbes, Theodor von Eltz; music, Paul Sawtell; music director, C. Bakaleinikoff; film editor, Dean Harrison.