MIT KRIEGSFLOTTEN AUF GROSSER FAHRT [Main Title]

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  • Title: MIT KRIEGSFLOTTEN AUF GROSSER FAHRT [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 909
  • Other titles: FULL SPEED AHEAD WITH THE NAVIES [Translation]
  • Summary: Newsreel record of recent naval manoeuvres by Great Britain, France, Italy, the United States, Japan and Germany.
  • Description: 1. HMS Nelson is the flagship during an exercise involving two other battleships and six destroyers which lay a smoke screen and drop depth charges against a simulated submarine attack. 2. French manoeuvres off Toulon are watched by an Admiral. Ships visible are two Adroit class destroyers, Lorraine, Béarn, Colbert, Courbet (or Ocean) class battleship, Chacal class destroyers, two submarines and a Duguay-Trouin class cruiser with a CAMS 55/2 on board. Three CAMS 55/2 fly overhead. 3. Mussolini comes aboard the flagship Pola in the Tyrrhenian Sea. Trieste is visible in front of Gorizia. Torpedoes fired. 4. USN manoeuvres in the Pacific. Maryland class battleships and others in line astern. Aerial view of Augusta class cruiser. Boeing F4B-1 fighters take off from USS Saratoga. Vought FU-1 observation plane catapulted off USS Pennsylvania. USS Perry and destroyer No 313 take part in this anti-submarine exercise (sequence inside USN submarine), during which F4B-1s lay a smokescreen and an old battleship (Ost Friesland ?) is bombed. 5. Emperor Hirohito comes aboard the Hiei. Myoko and Yubari also visible. 6. Part of the German fleet enters Swinemunde after Baltic autumn manoeuvres. Leipzig, Hannover, Schlesien and Schleswig-Holstein with scenes on board the latter. Niobe's crew cheers Hindenburg.
  • Alternative Title: FULL SPEED AHEAD WITH THE NAVIES [Translation]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: GWY 909
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 909
  • Featured Period: 1919-1938
  • Production Date: 1932
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: Fox Film (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Hindenburg, Paul von (person) Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (person) Mussolini, Benito Amilcare Andrea (person) German Navy, Hannover (regiment/service) German Navy, Leipzig (regiment/service) German Navy, Niobe (regiment/service) German Navy, Ost Friesland (regiment/service) German Navy, Schlesien (regiment/service) German Navy, Schleswig-Holstein (regiment/service) French Navy, Bearn (regiment/service) French Navy, Colbert (regiment/service) French Navy, Courbet (regiment/service) French Navy, LORRAINE, battleship (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Nelson (regiment/service) Imperial Japanese Navy & Hiei (regiment/service) Imperial Japanese Navy & Myoko (regiment/service) Imperial Japanese Navy & Yubari (regiment/service) United States Navy, PENNSYLVANIA (USS) (regiment/service) United States Navy & Perry (regiment/service) United States Navy, USS SARATOGA, aircraft carrier (1925) (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, French (?) - combat: CAMS 55/2 (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Boeing F4B-1 (object name) aircraft, United States - light military: Vought FU-1 observation plane (object name) equipment, United States naval air - propulsion: catapult (object name) operations, German naval - routine: manoeuvres (object name) operations, United States naval - routine: manoeuvres (object name) ships, British naval - battleship: Nelson (object name) ships, French naval - : Bearn (object name) ships, French naval - : Courbet (object name) ships, French naval - : Nelson (object name) ships, French naval - battleship: Courbet (object name) ships, French naval - cruiser: Duguay-Trouin Class (object name) ships, French naval - destroyer: Adroit Class (object name) ships, French naval - destroyer: Bearn (object name) ships, French naval - destroyer: Chacal Class (object name) ships, French naval - destroyer: Lorraine (object name) ships, German naval - : Colbert (object name) ships, German naval - : Hannover (object name) ships, German naval - : Leipzig (object name) ships, German naval - : Niobe (object name) ships, German naval - : Schlesien (object name) ships, German naval - : Schleswig-Holstein (object name) ships, German naval - battleship: Ost Friesland (object name) ships, Japanese naval - : Hiei (object name) ships, Japanese naval - : Myoko (object name) ships, Japanese naval - : Yubari (object name) ships, United States naval - : Pennsylvania (object name) ships, United States naval - : Perry (object name) ships, United States naval - : Saratoga (object name) ships, United States naval - battleship: Maryland Class (object name) ships, United States naval - cruiser: Augusta Class (object name) ships, United States naval - destroyer: No 313 (object name) training, British naval - combat: exercise (object name) training, United States naval - combat: anti-submarine (object name) weapons, United States - cbw: smokescreen (object name) Toulon, Var, France (geography) Italy & Gorizia, Friuli (geography) Italy & Trieste, Friuli (geography) Italy & Tyrrhenian Sea (geography) Pacific Ocean (geography) Świnoujście, Western Pomerania, Poland (geography) Świnoujście, Western Pomerania, Poland (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: German Title language: German Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 898 ft; Running time: 9 mins
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