NAVAL GUNNERY (RUSHES 2) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: NAVAL GUNNERY (RUSHES 2) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 866
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  • Summary: Unedited scenes of naval guns and of Aircraft Direction Room.
  • Description: I. Sequence showing 3-inch Mk VI ammunition supply from magazine to gunhouse: removal of ammunition from magazine racks, hoppers, inner and outer rings, and radial conveyor. II. Gun crew. LA.MCU of Local Aimer closed up in his position in Mk VI 3-inch turret - CU of his controls. Shots of the Captain of the turret and his control panel. CUs of the Captain closed up, with and without anti-flash. III. Aircraft Direction Room. MCU shooting through the perspex plotting screen of the Main Air Display Plot to three plotters - one marks the progress of an interception on the MADP. MCU of ADR tote with bogey at Angels 36 and a fighter being written in, 1000 ft above. MS of IO marking echoes - he turns and gives thumbs up to DO in foreground.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1945-1975
  • Production Date: 1957
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: weapons, British naval - gun: 3-inch, Mk VII turret (object name) equipment, British naval - surveillance: Aircraft Direction Room (object name)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 968 ft; Running time: 11 mins
  • Notes: Remarks: items I and II are rushes for the film "Naval Gunnery", item III is rushes for the film "Interception Technique".
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ADM 866

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