The Bottom of the Sea (1914)
Three travelers board a submarine. A man and woman go out fishing in a little boat and the woman casts her line overboard. The hook becomes attached to the submarine in the bottom of the sea. A man in a diving helmet opens a porthole of the submarine, untangles the line and pulls the woman out of the boat above down through the sea and into the porthole. The fishing boat capsizes and the man saves himself by clutching the legs of a big flying bird which bears him off. The girl meanwhile, is made love to by the three men in the submarine. She fights them off, knocking them insensible. She pulls the lever and the submarine ascends to the surface. The girl appears on deck; the bird with the man clinging flies by the girl, catches hold of the man's legs and is carried aloft with the submarine in pursuit. As the bird flies over an island the shots of the pursuers kill it, leaving the man and girl unharmed. A soldier from the fortress fires a cannon at the submarine, which sinks. At the bottom of the sea foolish looking fishes frisk about, retreating in terror when the submarine comes on and discharges two men in diving helmets They shoulder guns and march off. Later, after they shoot a brood of baby sharks, the mother swallows the hunters. From the submarine the remaining traveler hurries to their rescue He finds mother shark weeping copiously and sponging away her tears with seaweed. After a fight the man cuts open the fish and rescues his two companions, alive. No sooner have they returned to the submarine when a whale swallows the craft, finally coming to the surface near the island where the girl and her lover are. The whale ejects the submarine, the lover and the soldier break it open with an axe and the three occupants are marched away to prison. Presently an aeroplane sails by with an anchor dangling from it, which catches hold of the island and flies off with it. The prison slides off and drops into the sea. The lover and his sweetheart climb up the anchor rope to the aeroplane, followed by the soldier. There is a fight in mid-air for the possession of the airship, which finally plunges into the sea, where all are rescued by a pursuing vessel.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Vincent Whitman | Director |
| Vincent Whitman | Writer |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
