1955 - the premiere of "Underwater" - a lovely adventure movie produced by the great Howard Hughes

After 3 years of work and $3,000,000 invested "Underwater" was finally released. A lovely adventure movie produced by the great Howard Hughes, starring his great love Jane Russell.

The plot is basically a treasure hunt in the shark infested waters of the Caribbean. It was partially filmed on location in Mexico and Hawaii, with some shots on the newly constructed underwater tank in an RKO Radio Pictures soundstage. .

For the premiere, on January 10, 1955 the film was projected on a submerged movie screen at Silver Springs, Florida, and members of the press viewed the film 20 feet underwater while wearing aqualungs.