Title:CONFERENCE, GENERALS ALEXANDER, MOTGOMERY AND PATTON [Allocated Title]
Film Number:AYY 511/3/1
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Senior commanders of the Sicily campaign meet for a conference at Cassibile.
Description: Lieutenant-General Patton, Commander of the 7th Army, leaving a DC3 aeroplane. Patton meeting General Montgomery and shaking hands. Patton and Montgomery study a map laid on the bonnet of Montgomery's car. The map and the two generals. Montgomery marking positions on the map. Close up of Montgomery talking to Patton. Various close up shots of the generals talking. Panning shot of General Alexander as he goes to meet Generals Patton and Montgomery. Panning shot from Alexander to Montgomery. Alexander and Montgomery poring over a map. Various shots of the two generals talking.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company)
Black, A W (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Patton, George S. (person)
Alexander, Harold (1st Earl Alexander of Tunis) (person)
Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
Keywords: Italy 1939-1945 (theme)
Cassibile, Sicily, Italy (geography)
Operation Husky, Allied Invasion of Sicily 1943, Italy, Second World War (event)
