MULBERRY [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MULBERRY [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 116
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: Film of convoy ships, with balloons above them, of DUKWs, and smaller craft; also of floating harbour. Shots of convoy ships at anchor (taken from a moving craft), and of buoy. A motor torpedo boat (No 313) is passed. More footage of harbour entrance: chimneys, cranes, dock scenes. As cameracraft approaches pier, another motor torpedo boat can be seen; tracking shot along harbour: barges, tankers, convoy ships, iron vehicles all with barrage balloons in the background; tour - in cameracraft - of harbour region, and of the 'bridge' area; film of trucks on the pontoon bridge, and of an LST unloading troops and equipment; a small DUKW passes by.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-11
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Shearman (Squadron Leader) (Production individual) Baker, L A C (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: AP.A (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: engineering, military, British - Mulberry (object name) operations, Allied military - amphibious (object name) ships, British naval - amphibious: LST (object name) ships, British naval - smallcraft: MTB (313) (object name) transport, United States military - amphibious: DUKW (object name) Mulberry Harbour, Arromanches, Calvados, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 576 ft; Running time: 6 mins
  • HD Media:
  • Notes: Remarks: film very scratched. See remarks to ACB 84. Technical: although not spliced onto another film, ACB 116 is in a can comprising ACB 113-116.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 116

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