Learning on ScreenLarks with Sharks
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Larks With Sharks. DESCRIPTION: Most people are inclined to give sharks a pretty wide berth. But not these two young Australians: they deliberately seek them out, and take down a camera to prove it. Of-course, they’re armed in case of trouble, and it’s quite easy to have trouble, if you meet a big feller like this grey nurse, as he’s called. The leopard sharks seem to be a dozy lot. But one never knows ... Anyway, it all goes to prove that it is perfectly possible to have larks with sharks. SHOTLIST: Key scene. LS boat heading out to sea. MS man assembles camera for dive. MS two men go over side of boat. MS diver with harpoon. MS shark. MS diver. MS shark. MS harpoon is fired. LS harpooned shark. Various shots of dead shark. MS diver holds onto dead shark and swims off. LS diver holding on to harmless shark. LS shark. Various shots of deadly shark. Panning shot of leopard sharks on the sea bed. MS diver knocks on the shark, it swims off with the diver holding onto it. Various shots of diver swimming with shark. MS another diver catches shark by putting a rope round its tail. Various shots of the diver pulling shark onto boat. Various shots of same.
- Keywords
- Animals
- Locations
- Australia
- Footage sources
- Australia
- Card file number
- 84198
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 186
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