Operation Survival

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Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1415

Date Released

16 Jul 1956

Date submitted

3 Jul 1956

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Operation Survival. DESCRIPTION: Nine Frenchmen are making a pilgrimage into pre-history to find out how caveman lived in the Stone Age. They’ll spend three weeks in a cave (near Toulousem in Southern France) living on roots, snails, insects and fish. SHOTLIST: In the caves of the Queroy region, near the town of Carennac, ten young men prepared to live exactly as men lived in the Stone Age. Expedition being blessed by priest of Carennac. Men brought by military truck to the caves. After being searched by Gendarmes, the men go off into the countryside.

Keywords

History and archaeology

Locations

France; Carennac

Footage sources

France

Card file number

67531

Credits:

Commentator: Geoffrey Sumner

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