July 9, 1958
Release Date

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Ama Girls (1958)

Name: Ama Girls
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1958-07-09

29m

Running Time

July 9, 1958
Release Date

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Plot.

Oscar winning documentary short from 1958

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Cast & Crew.

Winston Hibler

Narrator

Robert O. Cook

Sound

Ben Sharpsteen

Director

Dwight Hauser

Writer

Oliver Wallace

Music

Harry Reynolds

Editor

Art Riley

Animation

Joshua Meador

Animation

Ernst A. Heiniger

Cinematography

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Details.

Release Date
July 9, 1958

Status
Released

Running Time
29m

Genres
Documentary

Wiki.

Ama Girls is a 1958 American short documentary film produced by Ben Sharpsteen. It was part of Disney's People & Places series. It won an Oscar at the 31st Academy Awards in 1959 for Documentary Short Subject. It is also known as Japan Harvests the Sea. It depicts the lives of ama divers, Japanese women who dive for pearls.