horse from the sea old movie

Sea Horses is a 1926 American drama silent film directed by Allan Dwan and written by Becky Gardiner, James Shelley Hamilton and Francis Brett Young. The film stars Jack Holt, Florence Vidor, William Powell, George Bancroft, Mack Swain, Frank Campeau and Allan Simpson. The film was released on February 22, 1926, by Paramount Pictures. It is considered a lost film.

Examines the sea horse, the only fish that swims upright. We watch it use its prehensile tail to wrap around plants and other sea horses. A frontal bulge houses organs including an air ballast. Three fins propel this fish. We see a female place her eggs in a male's pouch where they are fertilized and nurtured until birth in violent contractions. Inside the pouch are nurturing blood vessels. We then follow the growth of an embryo, greatly magnified: we examine its heart beating and its dorsal fin moving. Young sea horses attach themselves to each other. The film ends with images of many sea horses moving on the ocean floor, superimposed on a horse race.

An old man talks about a horse and human relations to his grandchild through the growth of the Derby horse. Akira Kurosawa's visual poem for the horse, the creature which he loved.

This promotional film for the Royal National Lifeboat Association was assembled by B.I.P. studio manager Joe Grossman from silent footage taken from several of the company’s features, including Castleton Knight’s Goodwin Sands and its sound version The Lady from the Sea, Alfred Hitchcock’s The Manxman, and the pioneering multi-lingual talkie Atlantic, directed by E.A. Dupont.

In pre-colonial Aotearoa a young Māori girl witnesses the best and worst of a rapidly changing world when she encounters a dying man and his horse.

Short documentary on 3 fisherman who still go fishing near the shore with horses the old fashioned way.

Walt Disney released this film about the relationship between mankind and horses on 16mm in 1968 for educational purposes.