Title:ALGIERS, ARRIVAL OF TROOPS; NEWS OF THE RECAPTURE OF TOBRUK; ALGIERS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 271/2
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Algiers during the North Africa campaign.
Description: 12/11. French North African troops walking along a street in Algiers. A British soldier on a motorcycle. A despatch rider on a motorcycle. Soldiers, sailors and civilians on the street, looking at the camera. Major General Clark, Commanding Lines of Communication areas, talking to Brigadier C A H Fairbank, Commanding Anti-Aircraft Defences in Algiers, outside their headquarters. A First Army troopship docks at the quayside. Men on the troopship. Paratroops of the 1st Brigade Headquarters on board the ship, also the padre and an officer. A Bofors anti-aircraft gun in action on the quayside.
14/11. A man running down the street. A paper boy with newspapers. Reactions from troops and locals on reading the news of the recapture of Tobruk in the newspaper. Close up of the newspaper Dernières Nouvelles showing the headline. A woman reading a newspaper. People buying the newspaper from the paperboy. Two soldiers reading the paper as they walk along the street.
15/11. French and Arabian inhabitants of Algiers. French soldiers outside the headquarters of the 19th Corps. A man weaving a chair in the street. Two local men sitting at an outdoor café table, smoking. Two children on a donkey. Various inhabitants. Veiled women in the street. A man carrying baskets.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Meyer (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Clark, Mark Wayne (person)
Fairbank, C A H (person)
British Army, First Army (regiment/service)
French Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Algiers, Algeria (geography)
North Africa, Second World War (event)
North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
