FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY VISITS MULBERRY B [Allocated Title]

Metadata


  • Title: FIRST LORD OF THE ADMIRALTY VISITS MULBERRY B [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 1282
  • Other titles: OPERATION NEPTUNE [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary:
  • Description: LCP(L) 81 comes alongside pierhead, and Vice-Admiral Willis and First Lord of the Admiralty, A V Alexander, come onboard. MCU as Willis, Alexander and Captain Hickling (NOIC) pose together informally. Alexander walks off with a small party to inspect the pierhead. MS of Admiral Vian in conversation with anonymous captain RN - Vian gets into a staff car. MCU of Vice-Admiral Dalrymple-Hamilton (?) talking. Frontal MS of a captured Kfz 15 (Chevrolet) staff car - the car drives off along Whale roadway to Arromanches accompanied by a motorcycle escort. A Humber staff car and RN jeep ('Patricia Ann') follow.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-24
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Willis, Algernon Usborne (person) Dalrymple-Hamilton, Frederick Hew George (person) Vian, Philip Louis (person) Alexander, Albert Victor (person) Hickling, Harold (person) Royal Navy, LCPL 81 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British naval - amphibious: LCP[L] 81 (object name) transport, German military - car: Kfz 15 (Chevrolet) & [impressed] (object name) transport, British military - utility: Humber FWD (object name) transport, United States military - car: jeep & [British] (object name) engineering, military, British - Mulberry (object name) delegations, British national - military (object name) delegations, British national - political (object name) 01/5(4-16).1 (event) Arromanches-les-Bains, Calvados, France (geography)
  • 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: 145 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • Notes:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ADM 1282

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