Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY COMMANDER ROBERT ELKINS [Alternative Title]
Summary: Amateur film shot by Commander Robert Elkins while serving on board «HMS Renown» in the Western Mediterranean Fleet (Force H) and the Northern Fleet.
Description: «HMS Renown» and «HMS Ark Royal» in rough seas. In the background is a Queen Elizabeth Class Battleship (Malaya ?). Scenes in Gibraltar of a Marines' parade and inspection of troops by the Commander in Chief. The ceremony is that of locking the gates on the south side of Gibraltar. Sailors wearing gas masks salute an officer, also wearing a gas mask, on the quayside. More shots of the parade. A Vice-Admiral pours brandy and rum? into two large vats and stirs the Christmas Pudding mixture with a large wooden oar. Convoy at sea. A Walrus seaplane takes off from a ship and lands on the sea. Scenes of the fleet anchored off a snowy coastline and a convoy outside a harbour (Orkney? Iceland?). Long slow pans over the merchant shipping and naval escort. Among the escort is a US Navy cruiser Brooklyn Class? A signal is flashed across the anchorage. Pan across the snow-capped coastline in the sunset ending on two of the escorts «HMS Witherington» and «HMS Verity». Sunset.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY COMMANDER ROBERT ELKINS [Alternative Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:MGH 752
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:1941
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Elkins, Robert F (Production individual)
