Title:COLOUR SCENES OF THE ORKNEYS AND THE MEDITERRANEAN [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 4574
Other titles:CAPTAIN BLUNDELL AMATEUR FILM [Alternative Title]
Summary:Silent 8mm colour footage taken by Commander George C Blundell as his ship, the battleship HMS Nelson, returns to active service in the spring of 1942 (?) after an extensive refit and takes part in Operation 'Pedestal', a bold and costly attempt to resupply the besieged island of Malta in August 1942.
Description:START 00:00:00 Scenes on Scapa Flow filmed in the spring of 1942 (?) - yellow primroses, an unidentified seabird sitting on the waves and birds feeding in grassland ashore. Views of the starboard side of the battleship HMS Nelson (now in an Admiralty disruptive camouflage scheme and armed with a Mk VIII 2-pounder pom-pom on B turret and 20mm Oerlikon cannon mountings on X turret instead of the unsuccessful Unrifled Projector rocket launchers). The entrance to a farm on the Orkneys at Scapa Flow. A cliff top view (Old Man of Hoy (?)), a violet, more primroses, two puffins nesting on a vertical cliff face and a fulmar swooping low over the endge of a cliff.
Alternative Title:CAPTAIN BLUNDELL AMATEUR FILM [Alternative Title]
