How to Stop a Shark

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1817

Date Released

30 Mar 1964

Date submitted

4 Mar 1964

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: How to Stop a Shark!. DESCRIPTION: Through the lense of Movietone’s underwater camera, we can have a look at a new technique in shark hunting. The diver loads up this new American invention - a speargun tipped with a 12 bore shotgun cartridge. The device kills the shark immediately on impact. The main holiday hazard in Britain is the weather! But in Australia waters, its sharks. The undersea shotgun would seem to be the safest and most humane way of dealing with them. SHOTLIST: Key scene. GV underwater - sharks swimming about. MCU diver John Harding prepares new underwater gun in boat. CU same. MS Harding dives into water. GV underwater - Harding swims among fish. MLS same. MS Harding swims about. CU shark swimming along and is killed by gun. GV another shark killed. GV same floating about dead. CU shark lying on bed of sea. CU Harding reloading gun underwater. GV shark is shot by gun. CU Harding dives. CU mass of fish disturbed by diver. GV shark shot dead and floats.

Keywords

Weapons; Animals; Inventions and discoveries

Locations

Australia; Montague Island

Footage sources

Australia

Card file number

88107

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

122

Story extras:

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