Marine Snow: The Origin of Oil

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 25 min
  • Premiere: 1960. January 1.

This film takes us into the microscopic world of the plankton that mass in the oceans. Their bodies ultimately turn to marine snow and accumulate on the ocean floor where, across vast time spans, they transform into crude oil.

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Camera

Yonesaku Kobayashi

Director of Photography

Crew

Directing

Shinkichi Noda

Director

Tetsuro Onoma

Director

Lighting

Shoichi Tabata

Lighting Director

Production

Souzou OKADA

Producer

Camera

Yonesaku Kobayashi

Director of Photography

Crew

Directing

Shinkichi Noda

Director

Tetsuro Onoma

Director

Lighting

Shoichi Tabata

Lighting Director

Production

Souzou OKADA

Producer