FILM REVIEW Currently there are two films in circulation dealing with sharks. One is Jaws, the much publicized story of the hunt and eventual killing of a Great White Shark filmed using a mechanical facsimile of the real thing. The other is called Blue Wa- ter, White Death, a relatively under-publicized documentary of a hunt of the Great White Shark by a group of divers. In this ‘movie though, the hunt is for the purpose of photographing the elusive Great White, not do- ing it in. While Jaws has grossed $8.5- million just in Canada after only eight weeks run, and_ Blue Water, White Death appears to be relying for its audience on the shark hysteria created by Jaws, the latter film is a far superior and more accurate por- trait of the Great White and other sharks. Jaws will go down in history as yet another 1970’s sensatio- nalist film with such notables as The Exorcist, Walking Tall, Towering Inferno, Earthquake, Rollerball . . . The film opens with a teenage beach party. One light headed girl and a drunken friend head to the beach for a swim. He never makes it into the water, she never makes it back out. The next morning her half eaten re- mains are found on the beach— obviously a victim of a shark attack. To make a long story short, the good sheriff of the small New England town, a Captain Kid-like fisherman, and a city- boy scientist take to the ocean No comparison in two shark movies to track and kill the beast. After a few days of throwing meat over the side of the boat the shark appears. And after a° few days more, with the boat ncthing more than a mast stick- ing above the surface, Captain Kid dead and the sheriff much more of a Man, the shark dies by chewing through a tank of compressed air and blowing it- self up. Scientist and_ sheriff paddle back to shore on some scraps of the ruined boat and, presumably, live happily ever after. : The inaccuracies in Jaws, and the hysteria they have created about sharks, has already pro- duced a bout of shark killings in Canada and the U.S. Firstly, there are less than a half-dozen people killed by sharks a year, (think how many die at the hand cf other humans): Secondly the “known habits of sharks make it highly unlikely that the number of deaths by the same shark, in the same area, that are littered throughout Jaws would actually occur. Also, Great White Sharks live in tropical waters the other side ‘of the equator, not off the beaches of New England. When they attack humans they are after focd. But the shark of Jaws attacked the men and boat pursuing it, as if it had a grudge teward them. And why on earth a shark would eat through a steel air tank God only knows. One of the reasons divers use protective ‘shark cages’ is that sharks generally snub hard ob- jects such as metal. The’ attraction of Jaws is portray Ms. Carr. Emily Carr, Canada’s most famous woman artist, will be the subject of a two-part CBC-TV special to be telecast Sept. 14 and 21 at 10 p.m. The documentary film was shot on location. in British Actress Margaret Martin will Columbia, where Carr lived and where she sought subjects for many paintings. Scme of her most common subjects were the Indian villages and their inhabitants, the rain forests and coastal wilderness of B.C. Emily Carr was born in Victoria, B.C. and died there in 1945 at the age of 74. Associated with the Group of Seven her paintings are highly valued today and many are on permanent display at the MacMichael Gallery, north of Toronto near Kleinburg, with Group of Seven works. nhs > & See ee s ae Margaret Martin plays Emily Carr in a CBC-TV series on the artist’s life. The two-part series will be telecast in Sept. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 5, 1975—Page 8 simply the kicks of another bloody, violent film with a new kick to it where the inflation- ridden masses can satisfy the latent violent tendencies capital- ist society nurtures. For a reasoned, and much more interesting look at sharks, go and see Blue Water, White Death. This film covers a five- month pericd in which the hunt for the Great White Shark (one of its nicknames is White Death) goes from Africa to India and ‘eventually to Australia where it is finally found. The four shark divers begin by following whaling boats off the coast of South Africa. With no luck there they go up the coast, then east to India, where they tie up to an old ship wreck known to attract various types of shark. Finally, off the coast of Australia at Dangerous Reef, the Great White makes its ap- pearance. The documentation includes above water photography by a professional crew and fascinat- ing underwater footage by the divers themselves. It explores the world of the ocean and the minds of shark divers who are not out for the killing. If one is really interested in an accurate, informative and exciting view of sharks, pass up Jaws for Blue Water, White Death. —J. G. New lens restores sight for many MOSCOW (APN) —The arti- ficial crystalline lens created by Soviet physicians has been pat- ented in many countries, includ- ing the USA, Britain, the Fede- ral Republic of Germany, Hol- land and Italy. It has helped to return eyesight to many people. The new method of treatment is being ever more widely used in the Moscow clinic, where Prof. S. Fyodorov, the well- known Soviet ophthalmologist, works. One of the patients re- cently operated on was a driver from Volgograd, who had lost sight as the result of an injury five years ago. After the implan- tation of an artificial crystalline lens he can see again and has already returned to his former work. The Volgograd driver is the 1,729th patient in the clinic who had his sight restored. Another ‘patient, who also ap- plied to the Moscow clinic, was threatened with blindness from cataract, a widespread disease of the eye. Both his eyes had to be operated on. How does the Operation proceed? After removing the rim crys- talline. lens, the surgeon im- plants a plastic lens with three little arcs and antennae, its shape resembling the first arti- ficial earth satellite. This is what foreign specialists call these lenses—‘“Soviet sputniks.” Each lens, made of. utterly in- ert plastic, has its individual parameters with account taken of the peculiarities of the eye. It takes the place of the remov- ed crystalline lens, which served as a natural optical lens. Sight is restored, as a rule, during the cperation and practically does not differ from the sight of a normal eye. as THE WORLD CONGRESS IWY (Third in the series on the nine themes of the World Congress for International Women’s Year, being held in Berlin, GDR, October 20-24) “DE JURE, DE FACTO” “in law, and in fact” — sounds clipped, short and simple. Yet it really means “are we getting even that bit that the laws say we’re entitled to?” ‘How do women around the world, and Canadian women, in particular, have to struggle to get the advantage of the measures of achievement that have been won already in the political arena and written into legislation? At the World Congress IWY, there will be a rich opportunity for women to share experiences, and to glean ideas about how to- sharpen up their laws, and how to try out actions to en- force the weak ones already there. A RUNAWAY HUSBAND, until just recently, could avoid his wife’s petition for divorce hy moving elsewhere, 4 favorite haven being across the border, and the wife had to bring suit in his plea of residence. The woman left with children to support not only: suffered the financial hazards of the husband’s irregular payments, but also when’ she , tried to get public assistance, was pressured to get an order of affiliation against the husband — a mad circle. NATIVE WOMEN make up the highest proportion of women jailed in Saskatchewan. The letter of the law may ~ be used in each individual instance, but we question the bias of the enforcers. The dentist’s wife who has sticky fingers:every time she passes through the local department — store may be left off without charge or trial, while her sister from the near-by reserve is under suspicion just for looking as if she’s loitering. The Royal Commission on the Status of Women recommended the Native women them- selves and members of Band Councils be involved in parole supervision — is this “in law, and in fact’? BILL C-72 — HUMAN RIGHTS BILL was introduced for first reading July 21 by Justice Minister Otto Lang. In contains what the Canadian Labor Code covered on Equal ES Pay. It is urgent that the trade union movement and women’s organizations get copies of the draft Bill and make their views known immediately. There is no considet- — ation for the demands of women and labor for “equal pay for work of equal value, based on skill, effort, respon- sibility and working conditions”. In Part I, Section 10, dealing with wages, the only change made from the Cana- — dian Labor Code is to take out the words “industrial”, (tO have it apply to any place of work), and “the same”, leav- — ing it as “similar conditions”; and the Bill adds the word: (Clause 2) “reasonable”. Sounds reasonable! Far from it: That gentle word provides the employer with a great big loophole for his choice of how to discriminate without the discrimination appearing to be based on sex. The Bill C-72 needs to be combed through like you're Icoking for fleas. Only Sections 4 to 10 are actually en- forceable. Other Sections, such as those dealing with pensions (e.g., Section 14) allow the continuation of long: established discriminatory practices — Section 14 shoul be deleted, and a measure provided to increase benefits for those already discriminated against. In Part III, Section 28, a “group” should replace “association”, to allow more — action on complaints. Clause 2 requires the victim’s con- — sent, a really retrograde step, especially as many women — fear to take action, but if their union did it, they could be ~ , called by the court to give evidence without the employer hassling them. Section 29 gives a comfortable cushion to. employers which. in practice could delay action for months, forcing the woman worker to exhaust all grievance proce: dures, and find she’s met, (as happens with Ontario legisla- tive provisions put into practice) with “Your claim }§ trivial, frivolous, vexatious, or made in bad faith”. Canadian women sometimes wonder, “What does a World Congress have to do with us here and now?” Here’s one — clear example. We face a maze of provincial and federal laws, and only by thoroughly digging into how they work out in every-day life do we realize how we're being skunked. There’s plenty to learn about how other women have found ways to grapple with these problems in other lands. And surely we Canadians have a bit to offer our || sisters abroad too.