Aquatic Archery

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2139

Date Released

1 Jun 1970

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

8 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Aquatic Archery. DESCRIPTION: Spear fishermen stage their own underwater archery competition in the clear warm waters of the Mediterranean. It was never like this in Sherwood Forest. SHOTLIST: SV pan group of skin divers jump off rock into water carrying targets. GV & CU skin diver positions target. CU skin diver descends with spear gun underwater. CU swimming to target. SCU speargun pan to target, fire & misses. Surface CU another diver submerges. SV (U/W) diver with spear gun approaches target. CU fires & misses target. SV pan another diver towards target. CU pan ditto, front view diver fires. SV spear hits bulls-eye. CU spear gun in diver’s hand. SV spear hits bulls-eye. SV diver approaches target. CU target. SV lifting target out of frame. SV letting target float upwards. CU target floats up. SV skin diver breaks surface holding target & spear. CU another diver to surface (underwater). CU diver breaks surface with target. CU another diver ditto.

Keywords

Sport; Entertainment and leisure; Competitions

Locations

France; Juan-les Pins

Footage sources

France

Card file number

96002

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

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