The Sea (1933 film)

• Gayne Whitman: Narrator ( English version)

Morze ( German for sea ) is a 1933 Polish incurred documentary short of three young Polish directors Wanda Jakubovska, Stanislaw Jerzy Zarzycki and welfare.

Action

Background

The film was the second short film by Wanda Jakubovska, a former student of art history at the University of Warsaw, which was active into old age as a director, but also a screenwriter, Kamara wife, editor and assistant director. In 1948 she became the first director of the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.

For co-director Stanislaw well, who later worked as a cinematographer, screenwriter and producer and in 1937 received an honorable mention at the International Film Festival in Venice, it was against the first directorial effort. Jerzy Zarzycki Mitregisseur had already shot several films and short films, also worked later as a cameraman and scriptwriter and 1951 received a special mention at the International Film Festival Karlovy Vary.

The narrator in the English version, Gayne Whitman, was an actor, who starred 1904-1957 in well over 200 films, and occurred during the silent film era, even under numerous pseudonyms. He was by his distinctive voice not only a well-known presenter of Radio radio plays, but also from the early 1930s to the late 1940s, a sought-after storytellers in numerous documentary short films.

Awards

In its English-language version with Gayne Whitman as the narrator of the film, which was released in the U.S. on May 7, 1933, nominated for the Academy Awards in 1934 for an Oscar for Best Short Film ( Novelty ). But the film was subject to directed by Joe Rock short film Krakatoa.