Glimpses of Florida (1941)

James A. FitzPatrick: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• [last lines] 

  James A. FitzPatrick : Some of these underwater actors can refrain from breathing more than two minutes, for the photographing of a single underwater scene. And their floating audiences may view them through the windows of unique boats, like this one... And with this unusual scene, we conclude our glimpses of Florida.

• [first lines] 

  James A. FitzPatrick : The story of southern Florida's picturesque palm trees takes us back to an eventful day in the year of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, when the Spanish brig Providencia, carrying a cargo of twenty thousand coconuts, was washed ashore in a storm. The few inhabitants who then resided in this section salvaged the cargo, which they planted, and thereby transformed the barren sand keys into scenes of tropical grandeur such as we now behold.

• James A. FitzPatrick : In his time, Ross Allen claims he has captured some thirty-six thousand alligators, ranging in weight up to four hundred pounds. But this particular one seems to have become a pest, as he no longer takes his master's wrestling antics very seriously.