NORMANDY BEACHES AFTER LANDINGS AND SCENES IN FAR EAST [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: NORMANDY BEACHES AFTER LANDINGS AND SCENES IN FAR EAST [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 2424
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  • Summary: Colour rushes shot by Royal Navy cameramen. Various scenes off Normandy beaches, June 1944. RN sailors and merchant seamen pass time aimlessly off tropical coastline, where dredger and auxiliary vessel Barfoam (1936-1946) are moored. Badly focused and underexposed sequence shows Supreme Commander Admiral Mountbatten addressing troops in the Far East, with bush-hat cameramen (British AFPU or Australian) visible, then departing by car at (unidentified) ceremonial occasion.
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  • Colour: Colour
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  • Object_Number: ADM 2424
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945
  • Production Country: GB
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  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) Mountbatten, Louis (Earl) (person)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 141 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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    ADM 2424

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