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Bathyscaphes in the Mediterranean Sea, 1954
Major collection: Science & Technology
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: film: 16mm
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Date made: 1954
Materials: Kodachrome
Measurements: 420 ft.
HEE-FV-052
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: film: 16mm
Maker: Edgerton, Harold Eugene
Date made: 1954
Materials: Kodachrome
Measurements: 420 ft.
This color and black-and-white film shows several Mediterranean underwater photography expeditions in 1954 featuring bathyscaphes outfitted with Harold Edgerton's underwater cameras and lights. Scenes show Jacques-Yves and Simone Cousteau and their collaborator Albert Falco on board ESPADON and CALYPSO, and crew working with Cousteau's bathyscaphe "SOUCOUPE". Footage also documents maneuvers with the French Navy's bathyscaphe FNRS III, captained by Georges Houot, in Toulon, France. Edgerton shows deep-sea photographs achieved during this fieldwork season as featured in the pages of the National Geographic Magazine. Run time = 00:12:46. (CC)
HEE-FV-052