Title:DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU SEQUENCES - 1 [Main Title]
Film Number:GWY 1230
Other titles:GERMAN SUBMARINE WARFARE ITEMS [Alternative Title]
Summary: German newsreel fragments on U-boat operations.
Description: I. U-boat surfaces in hot weather. Bare-torsoed sailors on conning tower scan sea. Three-masted sailing vessel is stopped and shelled. Cut-in of another sailing vessel exploding. (64 ft)
II. Sailors on U-boat attach fuel pipes prior to refuelling at sea from a supply submarine, Type XIV. Kapitänleutnant shouts through a loudhailer across the gentle swell of the ocean. (51 ft)
III. Two look-outs in souwesters spot a target. Emergency dive alarm sequence with Kapitänleutnant at periscope catching freighter in his sights. Two torpedo crew members wear indecipherable cap cockade, possibly Edelweiss motif of U-124, Type IXB. U-boat surfaces in day-for-night light and tanker blazes on surface in dusk, with oil-covered sea alight. (179 ft)
IV. Smoke covers sea after sinking of vessel. Bare-torsoed look-out wearing solar topee scans horizon with binoculars. Bare-torsoed sailors shell small freighter. (21 ft)
V. Bare-torsoed crew on conning tower. Small tanker blazes and sinks as tanned crew watch. Sailor lifts shell to reload deck gun. Ship sinks. U-boat passes through wreckage. Crew on conning tower which bears pennants denoting ships sunk: Radames (?), -lena, -dol, (?). Crew wear crab-like cap cockade. (60 ft)
VI. Cut from conning tower to commander as U-boat dives. Engine room commands, as water floods in, presumably after depth-charging. (88 ft)
VII. U-boat at sea in hot weather. Crew wearing peaked field cap (similar to Afrika Korps cap and worn in Mediterranean) scan horizon. Commander is summoned and scans sea with binoculars. Sailors slide down through conning tower. Commander scans mountainous coast through periscope before lowering it. (Spacing gap) Sailor listens through hydrophones as commander sights ship in periscope. Engine room scene. Crew ascend into conning tower as U-boat surfaces. Distant ship smoulders and another is shelled repeatedly until it sinks in an oily blaze. View of cameraman filming sinking and adjusting his lens. Flotsam boxes litter the sea. Rescued crew in boat. (286 ft)
VIII. U-boat crew eating, bare-torsoed. Alarm sequence as U-boat dives and the periscope is raised. Sailor puts on hydrophones and crew feign being depth-charged. Water floods in, then hole is patched up by welding. Sailor at tannoy, commander at periscope. Crew shout hurrah as U-boat surfaces in hot weather to see freighter sinking. Crew wear crab-like cap cockade. (173 ft)
Alternative Title:GERMAN SUBMARINE WARFARE ITEMS [Alternative Title]
