Underwater
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SILVER SPRINGS. Fla. -- More than 150 members of the press from New York and Hollywood, Calif., gathered in this village for the premiere of a motion picture -- "Underwater" -- underwater.
The contingent was led by the star of the picture, Jane Russell. She and about forty others, wearing oxygen masks, sat on four long benches, placed twenty feet down in the clear water of the springs.
A large plastic screen, sprinkled with reflecting aluminum dust, was suspended fifty-two feet from the projection machine, housed in a glass-wall boat. Loudspeakers were scattered about the sand.
The contingent was led by the star of the picture, Jane Russell. She and about forty others, wearing oxygen masks, sat on four long benches, placed twenty feet down in the clear water of the springs.
A large plastic screen, sprinkled with reflecting aluminum dust, was suspended fifty-two feet from the projection machine, housed in a glass-wall boat. Loudspeakers were scattered about the sand.
Apparently the screening didn't turn out very well. According to an RKO publicist, "Several journalists kept bobbing to the surface."
Some more trivia about the movie. That's not Jane Russell's body in the poster. The artists swiped the body from the August '54 issue of Collier's magazine.
Category: Movies