ABSTRACT
Museums that have auditoriums are hosting feature-length documentaries. The advance of documentaries into museum exhibitions is thus an opportunity for documentary filmmakers and archaeologists to interface with museum exhibit planners. Documentary-style filmmaking is likewise quite appropriate for other nontraditional applications such as instructional or training DVDs and even for long-distance learning at institutions of higher learning. Side-scan sonar utilizes acoustic energy transmitted over the seafloor or lake bottom either from a towfish attached to a cable and generally towed from a survey vessel or as part of the equipment package on an autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV). Moving outside the institutional walls into cyberspace, there is an incredible explosion of worldwide popularity in the YouTube phenomenon and other Internet viewing venues for short videos. The advantages of posting a documentary trailer on YouTube for embedding in or linking to your website begin with it being hosted on the most widely used video-sharing site in the world.
