Farm Tragedy

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
2072A
Date Released
20 Feb 1969
Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 4
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Farm Tragedy. DESCRIPTION: Was there no better way to solve it than mounting a military operation? That’s the question being asked, after Andre Fourquet is provoked into shooting his two children and himself after a fortnight’s siege in a lonely house near Bordeaux. SHOTLIST: GV house in Bordeaux where Andre Fauquet has barricaded himself in with his two children. GV ditto (x2). CU policeman looking through binoculars. GV house. MS police inspector walking to scene. CU ditto. GV house. CU zoom out police inspector. MS soldiers in grounds. MS pan army vehicle on move. CU inspector looking through binoculars. MLS house. MS house. CU photographs of Fauquet and his two children which he shot (2).
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Death; Crime; Military
Locations
France; Bordeaux
Footage sources
France
Card file number
94452
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
68
Story extras:

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'Farm Tragedy', British Movietone News Issue No. 2072A, 20 Feb 1969. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/27757 (Accessed 18 Jul 2025)