Farm Tragedy
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
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:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 68
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How to cite this record
'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)