World Without Sun (Columbia Pictures) (1964)

General Advance Jacques-Yves Cousteau, whose earlier undersea adventure film, “The Silent World,” won an Academy Award, has produced an equally exciting color film in his new Columbia Pictures release, “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun,” which opens....... Atitnens tee mreesie tote Theatre. A fantastic true-life adventure, “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun” was photographed in color under the Red Sea by Pierre Goupil. Stars of the film, apart from Cousteau himself, are a two-man submarine of unique design and intrepid oceanauts who lived and worked beneath the Red Sea in houses designed by Cousteau. They were underwater for a month, facing the dangers of the deep armed with nothing but cameras and courage. There are no studio shots and no “special” effects in “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun.” It was filmed where it happened, as it happened— in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Here, in the underwater community which in itself was a scientific experiment of the greatest importance, the oceanauts conducted scientific experiments, explorations and research vital to oceanographic knowledge. Cousteau’s earlier full-length color underwater work, “The Silent World,’ also was distributed by Columbia Pictures. In addition to the Academy Award, Cousteau’s efforts in “The Silent World” won the Cannes Festival Gold Palm Award, the international festival’s top honor, The renowned undersea explorer received the Hubbard Medal of the National Geographic Society. The film itself was acclaimed by critics throughout the world and was highly successful at the boxoffice. The cast of “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun” is headed by the lean, hawklike figure of Cousteau himself. The creator of the daring experiment moves along with his men, leading them, directing them and sharing their experiences and perils Cousteau already plans a third underwater experiment—on a larger scale—to be carried out in 1965 in the Mediterranean. “Our experiences and unexpected discoveries in the filming of ‘World Without Sun’ has been a revelation in the colonization of the sea,” comments Cousteau, “and yet there are still more experiments to be made, still more revealing and exciting thing's to see and discover.” Produced by Cousteau and Jacques Mauger, “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun” was directed by Captain Cousteau, with music by Serge Baudo. The commentary was written by James Dugan, Al Ramrus and Jim Schmerer. In National Geographic “Jacques Cousteau’s World Without Sun,” now at Ghee eee eee Theatre in color, rec2ived one of the biggest magazine breaks ever recorded for any picture when National Geographic Magazine, with 9 readership of more than 10 million, granted its cover and 43 pages of text and pictures to the breath-taking screen adventure. To make the exploits of the famous undersea explorer known to its readers, National Geographic included extensive diagrams of the two-man jet submarine utilized by Cousteau in his Red Sea underwater adventure. There also were diagrams, photographs and descriptive essays on every phase of Cousteau’s first-hand report on the French oceanauts who lived and worked for a month in a submerged colony located on a reef under the surface of the Red Sea. “Jacques Cousteau’s World Without Sun” is the famed explorer’s second full-length picture to be distributed by Columbia. His first, “The Silent World,” won both an Academy Award and the Gold Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Advance Notice “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun,” spectacular underwater adventure film in color, opens ccaceuateeuehe im at the ........... Theatre. Produced by ‘Cousteau and Jacques Mauger, this real-life drama of seven men living and working beneath the surface of the Red Sea was directed by Cousteau and photographed by Pi2rre Goupil. Serge Baudo wrote the music and the commentary was written by James Dugan, Al Ramrus and Jim Schmerer. (Mat No. 3A; Still No. Art 1) Shown above is an artists impression of 'Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun,'' new Columbia Pictures release in color, a fantastic true story of oceanauts who lived and worked beneath the surface of the sea for a month. Painting above shows the two-man submarine oceanauts used in their explorations and research, the star-shaped "Big House" in which they enjoyed all the comforts of land, and the onion-shaped "garage" at right, which housed the sub. 'Jacques-Yves Cousteau's World Without Sun'' was made by the famed undersea oceanographer whose earlier picture, "The Silent World," won an Academy Award. Music for the film was written by Serge Baudo. Review A fascinating, fantastic and breath-taking adventure story, “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun” presents in color at the ........... Theatre a world which, seemingly, is never without excitement. It is the world beneath the surface of the sea, and the film itself is concerned with the manner in which seven intrepid oceanauts lived and worked there for a month without once coming to the surface. They lived in a star-shaped structure on the floor of the Red Sea; it could be entered only via a ladder which let the aqualunged visitor or resident up into the “Big House” where, doffing his water-tight gear, he could eat, sleep, shower, listen to music, play chess or otherwise enjoy all the comforts of life on land. They worked out of the “Big House” and out of an underwater “garage”, a bell-shaped building which housed their two-man submarine, itself a miracle of scientific design. Here, in the garage, the submarine was guided to its place in much the same manner as a plane landing on the deck of an aircraft carrier; once in, it was lifted by pulley out of the water into a bubble of air under the roof of the garage so the submariners could step out without even wetting their feet. But, to reach the “Big House,” they had to don aqualungs and swim over. “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun” is a drama of real life, a motion picture record of two major scientific experiments. The first was the manner in which the oceanauts themselves could live and work underwater without surfacing. The second was the work they did—trapping new varieties of fish, studying the ways of the ocean currents, the surface of the sea bed, the continental shelf of the Red Sea, the effect of color on the behavior of fish, and doing other invaluable oceanographic research. Photographed in color by Pierre Goupil, the film’s underwater scenes are breath-takingly beautiful. The supposedly ‘dark domain’ under the sea is actually alive with color, it may be “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s ‘World Without Sun’ but assuredly it is a world which has its vivid lights and shadows, full of color, excitement and drama. Profoundly moving in this extraordinary motion picture is the obvious devotion of the men who took part in the making of the film. There are no heroics, no headlines—just a dangerous job to be done, and done well. In the doing, they have graphically, dramatically and entertainingly brought to the surface a film which deserves the admiration and applause of filmdom, and such other honors which are given to men so dedicated, and who so often go unrewarded. “Jacques Yves-Cousteau’s World Without Sun” is more than just a motion picture—it is an epic of modern discovery. When the world’s attention is focused on the stratosphere, Cousteau takes us down Page 10 beneath +’ ng and unknown ience now. We ar wo of the Cousteau's a game of 2m from his »r house in somforts of ith without ires release, air fantastic The Diving Sauce In “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun,” his new underwater adventure film for Columbia Pictures release now at the ........... Theatre in color, a “Diving Saucer” is one of the stars. The Saucer is a two-man exploration submarine of entirely new design created by Cousteau, and is the means by which Cousteau and his aides were able to film many of the extraordinary and previously unknown wonders of the colorful dangerous world beneath the surface of the sea. Driven by water jets, the elipsoid hull of the Diving Saucer is six feet seven inches in diameter and five feet high. Most of its machinery is enclosed in a flooded external girdle covered with fibreglass. On the starboard bow, a depth camera with separate lenses for closeups and long shots is fitted and synchronized with a flash on the opposite side. A 35mm movie camera, fitted inside for convenience in changing film, photographs the Diving Saucer as well as the surrounding seascape. The camera is trained through a small porthole between the two crew windows. The Saucer has ten “eyes.” Three are hemispheric optical ports in the dome with which to see overhead: passenger and pilot have one each forward and two are photographic. The remaining three are for sonar echo sounders beamed up, down and forward. The Saucer pilot lies on a foam mattress encircled with instruments, with his passenger lying on a similar mattress alongside. A tape recorder, mercury ballast chambers, radio antennae and stop-go buttons for the cameras complete the crowded interiors. There also is a retractable, claw-like device enabling the Saucer’s pilot to pick up and “pocket” undersea soil and shrubbery specimens. The submarine has enough pressurized air to last two men for 24 hours on dives reaching a depth of over 1000 feet. Before being used on the Red Sea expedition that is depicted in “Jacques Cousteau’s World Without Sun,” the Diving Saucer had already undergone 70 dives, many with eminent scientists as passengers able to observe at their leisure creatures of the deep never before studied in their natural habitats. Underwater Parrot A parrot named Claude probably is the first bird ever to go in for deep-sea diving . . . and deep-sea living. Claude’s underwater career was a part of the adventure depicted in “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun,” new Columbia release at the Ai Bee icne vag 0) Theatre in color. He was one of the residents of the community established by Cousteau in the Red Sea, where men lived and worked for a month without once coming to the surface. Claude made his dive in an ordinary pressurecooker, arriving in the underwater world with feathers ruffled but otherwise in good spirits and in good health. He remained talkative and inquisitive and, it is obvious from the film, somewhat bewildered by the denizens of the deep he was able to see from the windows of his undersea “house.” Academy Award Winner Jacques-Yves Cousteau is a Captain in the French Navy. He also is an author, a scientist, an inventor. He also is the winner of an Academy Award, as one of the world’s greatest movie-makers. Currentin,, at the Stee ee Theatre, there is “Jacques-Yves Cousteau’s World Without Sun,” a breathtaking depiction in color of Cousteau’s undersea community where oceanauts lived and worked for a month without once coming to the surface. Cousteau’s first film, the Academy Award-winning “The Silent World”, was concerned only with underwater life—the fish kind, as seen and studied by aqualunged divers. The current Columbia Pictures release is a natural follow-up; it shows some of the same divers actually living beneath the Red Sea.