Title:GAUMONT BRITISH NEWS ISSUE 1100 [Main Title]
Film Number:NGB 1100
Other titles:
Summary: 1. "Latest News from Normandy." Scenes showing 155mm guns in action, fighting in the Normandy area, and Field Marshal Montgomery in Caen.
2. "Royal Visit to Gun Site and Farm Camp." Visits to an anti-aircraft site and an agricultural camp.
3. "Coastal Command. RAF Beaufighters swoop down on a Nazi convoy." Bristol Beaufighter aircraft with invasion stripe markings fly low over the sea off the Friesian Islands before camera-gun film records their attack using rockets, torpedoes and cannon fire. Vessels retaliate. One Beaufighter ditches skilfully in the sea.
Description:
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Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:NGB 1100
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1944-07-20
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Gaumont British News (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Montgomery, Bernard Law (person)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
German Navy (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Bristol Beaufighter (object name)
combat, British - air strike anti-ship (object name)
combat, British military (object name)
operations, German naval - escort: convoy (object name)
weapons, British military - gun: 155mm gun (object name)
Germany & Freisian Islands (geography)
North Sea (geography)
camera-gun (concept)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 676 ft; Running time: 7 mins
