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Puerto Rico Guadaloupe 1959 Soucoupe

Major collection: Science & Technology
Named collection: Harold E. Edgerton Collection
Object type: film: 16mm
Maker: Date made: 1959
Materials: Kodachrome
Measurements: 450'

Film 4 color = Calypso 1959 Men on a raft unrolling fishing line, 2 men on inflatable raft Men on deck release small blimp KYTOON Camera lowered from deck, giant spool of cable, inflatable raft and motorboat return to ship Small yellow sub raised from deck and lowered by crane, raised again, young man poses for picture next to the sub, men inspect the sub Cousteau smokes pipe on deck Sub pulled out of water, men emerge Sub lowered into water, divers go down after it, sub raised, men emerge again Man catches an enormous lobster, school of dolphins in the water Divers swim toward the boat Sub spouts water and surfaces, sub lowered again, sub raised again, lowered again Sunset over sea (EH, CC)


HEE-FV-156