The Perfect Pearl

About

For centuries, man has risked both life and life savings to possess the pearl's beauty. Pure and perfect, glowing and dazzling, a pearl is actually a mistake formed when an oyster reacts to an irritant lodged in its shell. Go back to the late 18th century to meet Kokichi Mikimoto, who developed a technique for culturing pearls that's still used today. Travel to a Japanese oyster hatchery to see how technology is advancing pearl cultivation. Watch divers search for the immense pearls found in the world's largest oyster, the Pinctada maxima. See a strand of South Sea perfect pearls worth $2.3 million. And discover little-known facts as authors, zoologists, scientists and pearl experts reveal the pearl's wondrous history.

1 videocassette (approximately 60 min.) : 1/2 in

VHS

Narrator, Peter Thomas

Director of photography, Jenni Meaney ; editors, Denise Haslam, Hebry Dangar, Stephanie Munroe ; music composers, Alistair Jones, Ray Loring

Originally broadcast as an episode of Nova

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Archive

Internet Archive, in The VHS Vault

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Credit

Megan McMurchy (Author) (Producer), Stephen Sweigart (Producer), Trevor Graham (Director), Andrew Waterworth (Author), John Patterson (Author), Peter Thomas (Narrator), Australian Broadcasting Corporation., WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), Film Australia (Organization), WGBH Video (Firm)

Language

English

Subtitles

English (automatic)

Who can watch

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