Title:NOT SUCH PLAIN SAILING AFTER RIMINI [Allocated title]
Film Number:AYY 836/01
Other titles:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated series title]
Summary:Following the Allies' breakthrough of the Gothic Line at Rimini, obstacles, gun positions and blown bridges hamper progress, and floodwaters confine further advances to the coast road, in the vicinity of Cesenatico and Cervia
Description:AYY 836/1, shot by Sergeant Meyer, 11-13 and 17 November 1944
A ground level shot, with tank tracks in the foreground, showing a knocked out armoured vehicle; traffic passes on a road behind. Alternative angle and wider shot. The hull of a knocked-out Sherman tank, which is missing most of its running gear; pan to another Sherman. Trackless running gear on an overturned Sherman silhouetted against the sky. Slate. Wide shot of a river with a Bailey bridge; in the foreground the bow of a wrecked wooden boat marked '17 RI' and with a swastika. Wide shot of another Bailey bridge (over a different watercourse?) with traffic crossing. Another view of a Bailey bridge with traffic crossing. A low shot shows water coursing around broken masonry. A Bailey bridge with buildings beyond (at Cesenatico?). [Roll break] A lorry crosses a Bailey bridge. Another shot with broken girder bridge in foreground. Wide shots of flooded plains. Pan over floodwater, with Monte Titano visible to the south. A Bailey bridge and traffic at Cervia. A small riverboat at Cervia, marked with a swastika. [Roll break] At the bridge at Cervia an armoured car crosses, followed by a lorry and a jeep. A Sherman tank crosses; camera pans to show an Italian man driving a horse and cart. The waterway with sunken boats. A waterway; a lorry passes. Waterway. Barbed wire entanglement at the water's edge. [Roll break] Pan showing road traffic near floodwater. Shots of floodwater. [Roll break] Slate. An ambulance crosses a bridge where Bailey spans have been laid on existing piers. A jeep drives over the camera. On a tree-lined road a tank transporter passes carrying a bulldozer; camera pans to floodwater. A view of a camouflaged gun position, a bunker painted to look like a small house. [Roll break] Traffic driving along a river or canal. Another view of the painted bunker. Alternative angle. View from inside the bunker, showing the gun barrel in silhouette through the embrasure. Alternative framing with traffic passing. Views of concrete 'dragon's teeth'. [Roll break] Further shots of dragon's teeth. Views of a concrete bunker covering a road among stone pine trees. Close view of the embrasure, with signs of an impact just above it. View from inside the bunker, looking out through the embrasure as a vehicle passes. Barbed wire entanglement alongside a watercourse. Views of another concrete gun position. Wide shot showing the position's field of fire. Views of the gun (an 88mm?). An indistinct dark shot inside the bunker. View of anti-tank obstacles in the distance. [Roll break] Closer views of dragon's teeth. A Bailey bridge crossing a canal (?) with dragon's teeth on the bank; pan to show more dragon's teeth. Tilt down from a German sign reading 'Achtung Minen'. Another Achtung Minen sign, with a footbridge across a dyke in the background.
Alternative Title:BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated series title]
Colour:
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:AYY 836/01
Sound:
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM (AYY 836/01)
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:-1944-11-13
Production Country:United Kingdom
Production Details:War Office
Army Film and Photographic Unit
Meyer, Richard
