Operation Survival

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
1415
Date Released
16 Jul 1956
Date submitted
3 Jul 1956
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The Duke as Grand Master
  2. 2Water Speed News
  3. 3Operation Survival
  4. 4Royal Garden Party
  5. 5International Eisteddfod
  6. 6Cricket - Lord’s and Leeds

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
Length of story (in feet)
63
Story extras:
Film clip

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