Other titles:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description: I. Arromanches. LS pan over the harbour at low tide - two Whale roadways run across the beach, out to stores pierhead - HMS Despatch lies near Alynbank - merchantmen and LBVs offshore - mooring shuttles and erection tanks lie in the shallows - bulldozers, Albion 15/20-ton transporter and Bedford QLs on the beach in the foreground. MS of incomplete Whale roadway running out over the beach, and pan across the harbour to caissons, floating crane, BDVs, two V/W Class (?) destroyer escorts, Despatch, etc. View directly along Whale roadway to stores pierhead - no motor traffic except a Fordson 3-ton truck and a Hillman (?) light utility. Shot beneath Whale roadway, westward along the beach to a second, then pan to CU of nearby beetle float and the roadway (beneath which camera was shooting) running out into the harbour. Mooring shuttle lies awash in the shallows between the two roadways. LS to the harbour from a position behind the 'West Wall', and pan right to show La Tourelle and Docks HQ. MCU of cameraman Lieutenant Dines, sitting on Somerfeldt track, surrounded by his equipment.
II. Series of LS pans from Despatch over shipping in the harbour - LCT(3), LCI(L), LCVP, LBVs, DUKWs, floating crane, Rhino barges, tugs and dredger, merchantmen and tankers, trawlers and MFVs, Bar Class boom defence vessel, HMS Haslemere, Fairmile B ML, and other vessels are present - blockship Alynbank visible in the foreground. MLS to caisson line beyond Saltersgate, and MSs of the gaps between the caissons - crewmen move over a plank placed between two blocks, scramble netting rigged across the space between two more. HA.MS of the sea breaking between the caissons. Fairmile B ML, pitching in the swell, enters the Mulberry harbour.
Alternative Title:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
RN Combat Film Unit No 1 (Production company)
Dines, Gordon (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Dines, Gordon (person)
Royal Navy, DESPATCH (HMS), light cruiser (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Haslemere (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - harbour: Haslemere (object name)
ships, British naval - light forces: Fairmile B ML (object name)
engineering, military, British - Mulberry (object name)
engineering, military, British - Mulberry: Whale roadway (object name)
engineering, military, British - Mulberry: Phoenix caissons (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Bedford QL (object name)
transport, British military - truck: Fordson 3-ton (object name)
transport, British military - truck, special: Albion 15/20-ton transporter (object name)
01/5(4-16).1 (event)
Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, France (geography)
