Driving Dare Devil

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2343A

Date Released

2 May 1974

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Dare Devil. DESCRIPTION: Stunt driver Franck Valverde makes a disastrous dive into the river at Castres in Southern France. SHOTLIST: GV pan river Castres. CU Franck Valverde. CU interior of car he will drive (all padded). CU exterior ditto. SV Franck getting into car. SV ditto in car. SV spectators at house windows. SV frogman at side of river. CU pyramid of cars. LV pan Franck drives car up ramp, hits the top car pan to his car upside down in water, then pan to smashed up car, back to his car & frogmen jump in and rescue him. SV onlookers. LV frogmen at work. SCU frogmen pulling Franck to surface.

Keywords

Entertainment and leisure; Environment; Stunts; Accidents and disasters

Locations

France

Footage sources

France

Card file number

99874

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

122

Story extras:

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