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Title:ADMIRAL STARK ONBOARD HMS SCORPION [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 1985
Other titles:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description: MLS off the starboard beam of HMS Rodney lying stationary in the water - she fires a broadside over her starboard beam. Cut to MS as Admiral Stark comes up the side of the cameraship, HMS Scorpion, from admiral's barge - the side party renders honours. HA.MS aft from the port bridge wing of Scorpion, now underway at speed - 20mm mounting abaft funnel. Two freighters pass by. MCU of a lookout on the bridge, using spotting binoculars. Naval officers and a colonel RA (cf ADM 1279), look through personal binoculars. LA.MS and CUs of HA.DCT (high angle direction control tower) - Admiral Stark's flag flies from the foremast. MS of Lieutenant-Commander Clouston (?), captain of Scorpion, on the bridge looking through binoculars - he is looking away from camera. CU of Admiral Stark - he smiles. General shots of Stark, his party, and the ship's officers on the bridge. MCU as a crewman operates a signal searchlight - LSTs in the background. MLS broad on the port bow of a liberty ship. CUs of Stark looking through binoculars. Camera vessel passes off the port quarter of a freighter (C3 standard hull). MS off port quarter of submarine rescue vessel lying astern of a second C3. MS broad on starboard quarter of USS Augusta.
Alternative Title:OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Stark, Harold R (person)
Royal Navy, Rodney (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Scorpion (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, LCT4 824 (regiment/service)
United States Navy, AUGUSTA (USS), heavy cruiser (1930) (regiment/service)
Keywords: ships, British naval - battleship: Rodney (object name)
ships, British naval - amphibious: LCT[4] 824 (object name)
ships, United States naval - cruiser: Augusta (object name)
ships, Allied civilian - cargo: liberty ship (object name)
equipment, British naval - surveillance: spotting binoculars (object name)
communications, British naval - direct: signal searchlight (object name)
delegations, United States international - military (object name)
combat, British naval - bombardment (object name)
01/5(4-16).1 (event)
France (geography)