Potholer Seeks Record (1963)

Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire. GV. The hill under which Stump Cross Caverns are. CU. Sign ’Stump Cross Caverns’. SV. People unloading cartons of food from jeep and placing them with other cartons - two shots. SV. The cartons. SV. Men carrying goods down into the cavern - two shots. SCU. & SV. Man going down steps into the cavern. SCU. Men crouching as they go through gap in the rock. GV. One of the caverns. SV. Pan, one of the caverns. CU. Pan, down showing 22,000 year old stalagmite. GV. The cavern. SCU. Pan as Geoffrey Workman, a man who attempts to stay 100 days underground, is hustled past camera - he is not allowed to show his face due to contract with London newspaper. SV. People watching. SV. & SCU. Inside the cavern, as Mr Workman comes towards camera with head bowed and people trying to stop him being photographed. CU. Press photographers. SV. The closed door to the lower caverns, somebody is seen peeping through a hole. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITIS