The Silent World
The Silent World DVD cover
Directed by	Jacques-Yves Cousteau Louis Malle
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Written by	Jacques-Yves Cousteau
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Released	May 1956, (Cannes Film Festival)
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Running time	86 min.
Language	French
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The Silent World (Le Monde du silence) is a French documentary film released in 1956, co-directed by the famed French oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and a young Louis Malle. The Silent World is noted as the first film to use underwater cinematography to show the ocean depths in color. It took its title from Cousteau's book of 1954. Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1976. ... Louis Malle (October 30, 1932 - November 23, 1995) was a French film director. ... The Palais des Festivals (2000) The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival international du film de Cannes or simply le Festival de Cannes) is the worlds most prestigious film festival, first held from September 20 to October 5, 1946 in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of... Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ... See also: 1955 in film 1956 1957 in film 1950s in film years in film film // Events November 15 - The film Love Me Tender starring Elvis Presley (his first film) opens. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards and appeal to a wider international audience, this article may require cleanup. ... Jacques-Yves Cousteau in 1976. ... Louis Malle (October 30, 1932 - November 23, 1995) was a French film director. ... car wreck in a lake A NikonosV underwater camera with flash and lanyard Underwater photography is the process of taking photographs while underwater. ... An undated color photograph from 1905 to 1915 by Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Color photography was explored throughout the 1800s. ...

The film was shot while aboard the ship Calypso. Cousteau and his team of divers shot 25 kilometers of film over two years in the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, of which 2,5 kilometers was included in the finished documentary. Calypso is the name of a ship that Jacques-Yves Cousteau, one of the most important researchers in oceanography, equipped as a mobile laboratory for field research. ... Satellite image The Mediterranean Sea is a part of the Atlantic Ocean almost completely enclosed by land, on the north by Europe, on the south by Africa, and on the east by Asia. ... Map of the Persian Gulf. ... Location of the Red Sea The Red Sea (Arabic البحر الأحمر al-Bahr al-Ahmar; Hebrew ים סוף Yam Suf; Tigrigna ቀይሕ ባሕሪ QeyH baHri) is a gulf or basin of the Indian Ocean between Africa and Asia. ...

The film later faced criticism for some environmental damage done in the filmmaking. In one scene, the crewmembers of Calypso massacre a school of sharks that were drawn to a whale's carcass. In another, Cousteau uses dynamite near a coral reef in order to make a more complete census of the marine life in its vicinity. Cousteau himself was involved in marine conservation, especially later on in his life, and was even called "the father of the environmental movement" by Ted Turner [1]. Orders Hexanchiformes Squaliformes Pristiophoriformes Squatiniformes Heterodontiformes Orectolobiformes Carcharhiniformes Lamniformes Sharks are a group (superorder Selachimorpha) of fish, with a full cartilaginous skeleton, a streamlined body plan, with normally 5, but up to 7 (depending on species) gill slits along the side of, or beginning slightly behind, the head (in some... Some of the biodiversity of a coral reef. ... Marine conservation, also known as marine resources conservation, is the protection and preservation of ecosystems in oceans and seas. ... Ted Turner Robert Edward Ted Turner III (born November 19, 1938) is an American media mogul and philanthropist. ...

The Silent World was the first of Cousteau's two documentary films to win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, the other being World Without Sun in 1964. The film also won the Golden Palm award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1956, being the only documentary film to win the award until Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 repeated the feat in 2004. Although he never won an Oscar for any of his movie performances, the comedian Bob Hope received two honorary Oscars for his contributions to cinema. ... The Academy Award for Documentary Feature is one of the most prestigious awards for documentary films. ... The Palme dOr (Golden Palm) is the name of the highest prize given to a film at the Cannes Film Festival. ... The Palais des Festivals (2000) The Cannes Film Festival (French: le Festival international du film de Cannes or simply le Festival de Cannes) is the worlds most prestigious film festival, first held from September 20 to October 5, 1946 in the resort town of Cannes, in the south of... Michael Moore pictured on the cover of his book Michael Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American film director, author, and social commentator. ... Fahrenheit 9/11 is a high-grossing, award-winning documentary film by American filmmaker and liberal activist Michael Moore, which had a general release in the United States and Canada on June 25, 2004 in the run up to the presidential election. ...

External links

• The Silent World at The Internet Movie Database
• Jacques Cousteau's "The Silent World" by Greg Rubinson at salon.com, July 15, 2002, retrieved February 19, 2006