GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT CONSTRUCTION [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: GERMAN TORPEDO BOAT CONSTRUCTION [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 1728
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  • Summary: Film showing the construction and launching of a Torpedo Boat at Elbing, East Prussia.
  • Description: This amateur film that seems to have been shot by the Oberingenieur of the Schicham dockyards at Elbing shows the gradual building of a torpedo boat, 600 tons, in the construction yards there. There are then shots of the formal launching of the ship and a speech by an unidentified senior naval officer.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 1728
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940
  • Production Country: Germany
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  • Keywords: Elbląg, Warmia-Masuria, Poland (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Footage: 280 ft; Running time: 8 mins
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    GWY 1728

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