Salt Lake Telegram | 1950-09-08 | Page 17 | Ford Listens in on Fish Talk for New Film

Ford Listens In InOn InOn InOn On Fish Talk For New Film HOLL HOLLYWOOD Glenn HOLLYWOOD Glenn Ford is the authority for the report that fish actually converse and hurl weird vocal signals at each other while hile swimming about in the deep Ford went out the other day on ona ona ona a hour 24 submarine cruise for his role roJe as a submarine commander in Columbia's The Flying Missile shooting on local location on at San Diego and Port Hueneme One of the things Ford did was to clamp on the earphones and sit at the sound operators operator's table A maze of sensitive m microphones microphones micro micro- cro- cro I phones line the outside of a sub suh I and picks up anything from a barracudas barracuda's belch to the menacing menacing menacing ing whirr of an enemy ships ship's pro pro- peller Ford was amazed to hear a series of strange grunts and andI I squeals and crackling sounds The submarines submarine's regular sound operator explained that these were schools of fish like whales or black fish or porpoises keeping i in vocal touch with each other asI as they moved to a new location I Navy scientists have made a study and have found that each sea creature creature creature crea crea- ture talks in its own individual A way And a submarine can chart its course by fish talk which immediately immediately immediately im im- im- im I mediately reveals the known areas of the gamey gabbers I Fords Ford's wry comment to all this Now I know the origin of she sounds like a fishwife