GENERAL EISENHOWER VISITS HMS NELSON [Allocated Title]

Metadata


  • Title: GENERAL EISENHOWER VISITS HMS NELSON [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 412/1
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Senior officers on board the battleship «HMS Nelson» at Algiers Dock.
  • Description: General Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham arrive. They come up the gangway and are piped aboard. General Eisenhower inspects the Royal Marines Guard of Honour. Close-up of Rear-Admiral A U Willis, General Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. Panning shot from elevated 16-inch guns down to a ladder and General Eisenhower. Eisenhower ascending the ladder. Eisenhower on the gun turret. Guns being elevated and depressed and the 16-inch traversed. Eisenhower leaves the ship. The two men depart in a motor boat.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-05-04
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Black, A W (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Eisenhower, Dwight David (person) Cunningham, Andrew Browne (person) Willis, Algernon Usborne (person) Royal Navy, NELSON (HMS) (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Corps of Royal Marines (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Algiers, Algeria (geography) North Africa, Second World War (event) North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 188 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • Notes:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 412/1

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