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Hard To Find Films
Films From the Silent era and up that you can't find anywhere else!
Cousteau - Le Monde sans soleil aka WORLD WITHOUT SUN
World Without Sun, a documentary released in 1964 by Jacques Cousteau,
chronicles Continental Shelf Station Two, or "Conshelf Two", the first
ambitious attempt to create an environment in which men could live and
work on the sea floor. In it, a half-dozen oceanauts lived 10 meters
down in the Red Sea off Sudan in a star-fish shaped house for 30 days.
The undersea living experiment also had two other structures, one a
submarine hangar that housed a small, two man submarine referred to as
the "diving saucer" for its resemblance to a science fiction flying
saucer, and a smaller "deep cabin" where two oceanauts lived at a depth
of 30 meters for a week. The undersea colony was supported with air,
water, food, power, all essentials of life, from a large support team
above. Men on the bottom performed a number of experiments intended to
determine the practicality of working on the sea floor and were
subjected to continual medical examinations. The documentary, 93
minutes long, received wide international theatrical distribution, and
was awarded an Academy Award for Best Documentay, as well as numerous
other honors. It was Cousteau's second film to win Best Documentary,
the first being "The Silent World" released in 1956.
Funded in part by the French petrochemical industry, the Conshelf Two
experiment was originally intended to demonstrate the practicality of
exploitation of the sea using underwater habitats as base stations. In
the end Cousteau repudiated such an approach, turning his efforts
instead toward conservation. The lyrical and dramatic underwater
sequences - the film was directed by a young Louis Malle - also,
ironically, likely contributed to the beginning of an era of ocean
conservation as well as incidentally promoting sport diving. Memorable
sequences inolve men cavorting with fishes, an underwater chess game,
and the diving saucer reaching depths of 300 meters, encountering new
and unique forms of life.
Reviews of the film were overwhelmingly positive, although the film did
come under some criticism around accusations of "faking" footage, most
notably by New York Times reviewer Bosley Crowther who questioned the
authenticity of two of the film's more dramatic scenes. Cousteau took
great offense, going to some length in future publications to describe
and defend the difficult and innovative techniques used to create the
film.
Very nice quality print.
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