Metadata
- Title: TROOPSHIP [Main Title]
- Film Number: UKY 439
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- Summary: A picture of life on board a troopship during a 2 month voyage (the destination is never explicitly stated).
- Description: The soundtrack is provided by the letters home of one of the men, and repeated singing of "Hold your hats on"; the film shows troops embarking; ship puts to sea and joins convoy; boat drill; PT (for the men and for an ATS unit on board); swimming and sunbathing; drill, and weapons training; a boxing match; some rough weather (soldiers wash clothes in rainwater); parade and dances on eve of arrival; disembarkation.
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1942-07
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: War Office (Production sponsor) Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Army Film Unit (Production company) Stewart, Hugh1910-12-142011-05-31 (Production individual) Miller, Sonny (Production individual) Addinsell, Richard (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service) British Army, Auxiliary Territorial Service (regiment/service) Royal Navy (regiment/service)
- Keywords: operations, British military - movement: ship (object name) operations, British naval - escort: convoy (object name) operations, British naval - routine (object name) recreation, British military - sport: PT (object name) recreation, British military - sport: boxing (object name)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 675 ft; Running time: 7 mins
- Notes: Remarks: film has a curiously dated look - troops in pith helmets, training with boys at rifle etc. Documentation/associated material: COI file - shotlist, script
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