Title:NORMANDY AND NETHERLANDS SCENES FILMED FROM A LANDING CRAFT [Allocated Title]
Film Number:MGH 4692
Other titles:LESLIE FOWLER AMATEUR FILM [Alternative Title]
Summary: Black and white and colour amateur film shot by Sub-Lieutenant Leslie Fowler RNVR while commanding a Tank Landing Craft (LCT 2130) records service, and some family, scenes between June 1944 and May 1945. Colour footage of LCTs approaching Normandy beachhead, Army trucks driving off onto beach, loading aboard of wounded on stretchers onto LCT and then onto rusty hospital ship, unloading of food supplies (close-ups of labels). Black and white and colour scenes on leave with his young family in England. Colour footage of LCT's at sea. Black and white shots of LCT 2130 covered with snow on Dutch canal after flooding of Holland by retreating German forces. Colour footage of a liberation parade in Dutch town. Colour footage of LCT disembarking German prisoners of war and LCTs in line-ahead along canal past windmill. Colour footage of Royal Navy of the LCT and shots of LCTs in line ahead (presumably) returning to UK.
Description:
Alternative Title:LESLIE FOWLER AMATEUR FILM [Alternative Title]
Colour:Colour (part B&W)
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 4692
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1944
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Fowler, Leslie (Production individual)
