Alive in a Tomb

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1902A

Date Released

18 Nov 1965

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Alive in a Tomb. DESCRIPTION: Pictures from Stockholm of the rescue of two men who were entombed for nearly five days and nights in a tunnel, where the roof caved in while they were drilling for a telephone cable. SHOTLIST: GV pan cave in area. MS rescue workers at work. MS ditto. MS rescue workers dropping supplies down a drill tunnel. MS ditto. MS Kjell Nillsson’s fiancee and Soren Jansson’s wife waiting by tunnel exit for news. MS rescue worker shouts down drill tunnel to trapped men and drops a small package down to them. MS rescue workers. MCU map showing where trapped men are. CU ditto. MS rescue workers, working by arc lights. MS rescue workers carrying a canoe which is to be used as a sledge. MS rescue workers working by floodlight. MS Kjell’s fiancee laughs as the men are brought up. MLS Kjell Nillsson steps out of the lift. MS Kjell walks from lift. MLS ditto. MLS Soren Jansson walks from lift and stops to shake hands with rescue workers. MS Soren walks from the lift.

Keywords

Buildings and structures; Accidents and disasters; Engineering

Locations

Stockholm; Sweden

Footage sources

France

Card file number

90446

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

116

Story extras:

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