Passenger Submarine Launched Aka Piccard’s Mesoscaphe Launched (1964)

Full title reads: “Lake Geneva. Passenger Submarine Launched“. Bouveret, Switzerland. GV The mesoscaphe on the launching ramp, LV ditto. LV Men on the deck. SV The ship being blessed. SV Professor Jacques Piccard, his wife and son. CU ditto. SV As Prof. Piccard’s mother cuts tape to launch the ship and the bottle smashes and the mesoscaphe starts to move down slipway. LV As it moves away from camera. GV Pan. As it slips stern first into the water. SV The propeller going into the water. SV People watching. GV As it slips into the water. LV ditto. GV Naval guard of honour standing in longboat as the mesoscaphe goes into the water. LV ditto. CU Pressmen. GV The mesoscaphe at anchor. (F.G.) FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical colle