Driving Dare Devil
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
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:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 122
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How to cite this record
'Driving Dare Devil', British Movietone News Issue No. 2343A, 2 May 1974. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/30322 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)