MISCELLANEOUS FIRST WORLD WAR NAVAL MATERIAL 12 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MISCELLANEOUS FIRST WORLD WAR NAVAL MATERIAL 12 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 1160
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  • Summary: Collection of miscellaneous naval scenes from the First World War.
  • Description: I. Long shot as SS airship passes across sky background. II. Interior medium close-up of Italian officer at the periscope in submarine's control room (cf IWM 1155). III. Onboard low-angle medium shot of black smokescreen generated by a PC boat. High-angle medium shot from foremast, showing W/T spreaders between fore- and mainmast. IV. Quarter deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth - a Japanese admiral salutes a British counterpart (cf IWM 572). V. Long shot of a seaplane in flight. High-angle medium shot from the bridge of HMS Furious to the forward aircraft hold, and pan forward to the end of the flight deck - two Short Admiralty Type 184 seaplanes are on deck. VI. A Type smoke apparatus operating on the quarter deck of the camera vessel (cf IWM 574). VII. Medium shot from focsle to B turret and bridge of HMS Canada, and pan up foremast to control top. Two photographers, standing near the port semaphore, take pictures of the anchorage - partially obscured, in the background, lies HMS Superb. VIII. Medium shot as officers returning from shore leave go onboard steam launches lying alongside a pier. IX. Medium shot of PC.43 as it leaves harbour, and at sea, turning hard a'starboard to follow the cameraship (cf IWM 1153). X. Pan across docks - merchantman alongside, barge in midstream. XI. Low-angle medium shot as airship SS24 turns to starboard. Felixstowe flying boat goes over. XII. As sequence III. PC boats make smoke. XIII. Radio operator receives a message (?) - RNR sub-lieutenant uses telephone in a radio shack. XIV. Medium shot off the port beam as HMS Revenge passes. XV. Medium shot to bridge of HMS Furious - Sopwith Pup suspended from aircraft derrick in the foreground, having been lifted from the hold. The aircraft is lowered onto the deck, and the handling party comes ahead with it, directly towards the camera. XVI. Queenstown. British and US sailors walk the seafront - Hunt Class minesweeper in the background. XVII. Various medium shots and tracking medium close-up from the stern to port bow of HMS Canada as she lies in anchorage, flying the Blue Peter. HMS Queen Elizabeth, and Orion and Bellerophon/St Vincent Class battleships in long and extreme long shot background.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 1160
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor) Engholm, F W (Production company) Engholm, F W (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Queen Elizabeth (regiment/service) Royal Navy, FURIOUS (HMS), light cruiser (regiment/service) Royal Navy, CANADA (HMS), battleship (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Revenge (regiment/service) Royal Navy, PC43 (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Charing (decoy name) (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Trego (decoy name) (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British naval - battleship: Canada (object name) ships, British naval - battleship: Revenge (object name) ships, British naval - battleship: Queen Elizabeth & [-] (object name) ships, British naval - battleship: Orion Class & [-] (object name) ships, British naval - aircraft carrier, fleet: Furious (object name) ships, British naval - special operations: PC43 (Q-ship) (object name) ships, British naval - special operations: Charing (Q-ship) (object name) ships, British naval - special operations: Trego (Q-ship) (object name) ships, British naval - escort: PC43 (object name) ships, British naval - minesweeper: Hunt Class & [-] (object name) aircraft, British naval - seaplane: Short 184 (object name) aircraft, British naval - combat: Sopwith Pup (object name) aircraft, British naval - airship: SS24 (object name) weapons, British naval - CBW: A Type smoke apparatus (object name) communications, British naval - electronic: radio (object name) equipment, Italian naval - surveillance: periscope (object name) 12/3(26) (event) GB, Ireland & Queenstown, Co Cork (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 422 ft; Running time: 7 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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