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A Century of Photos
JANUARY 1999
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They're fun. They're quirky. And they're full of surprises. Now more than a century of adventures and photographic memories from the magazine's archive are just a click away.
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JANUARY 1999
| Photograph by Submarine Film Corporation |
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Diving Belle
A "modern mermaid," according to our records, actress Lula McGrath cavorted among corals with helmeted J. Ernest Williamson in this still from the 1922 silent movie Wonders of the Sea. Williamson and his brother, George, ran a "floating and under-sea" film studio in the Bahamas, specializing in photography from the porthole of their patented submarine chamber. In 1916 they shot the underwater scenes for the first Hollywood version of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. Society archives contain several of the Williamson brothers' photographs—including one image of a diver confronting a sleep-looking "deadly" eel—but none were ever published in the magazine.
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