ZEEBRUGGE (ledger title) [Main Title]

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  • Title: ZEEBRUGGE (ledger title) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 358
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  • Summary: Scenes showing the aftermath of the Zeebrugge raid, filmed at the time of the Allied re-occupation in October, 1918.
  • Description: Long shot from a gun position, part of the Lübeck Battery on the mole, and pan right - three men stand in front of the gun, surveying the harbour. Man picks at debris in gunners' cupboard behind a 150mm gun of the Mittel Battery - pan left to show the gun and the beach it commands. Medium shot pan over the block-ship Iphigenia, lying across the entrance of the Bruges Ship Canal - the stern of Intrepid appears at frame right at the end of the take. High-angle medium shot views of SS Brussels sunk near the end of the mole, masts and funnels showing above the water. High-angle view along the mole to the lighthouse at the seaward end - two of the guns emplaced on the mole also appear in frame, the nearest with the barrel blown out at the muzzle. Long shot of the breach blown in the viaduct by the explosion of submarine C.3. Medium shot pan over rack of shells and rail lines behind the Kaiserin Battery - to the right of the lines are a series of German monuments in the form of sea mines mounted upon pedestals. Low-angle medium shot behind the shield of one of the guns of the battery. Medium shots off the port bow of HMS Thetis lying in the harbour - the White Ensign flies above the wreck. High-angle medium shot along the mole as a man works the traversing wheel on one of the guns emplaced there - the gun with the blown barrel. Medium shot pan over Iphigenia and Intrepid, commencing where the previous pan finished. Barbed wire entanglements on the sloping sides of the canal - a Briton stands beside a German notice which forbids photography and drawing of the harbour mouth - camera pans to the two sunken block-ships. Long shot of Thetis and ML.532 in the harbour, seen from the western bank of the canal, and pan right to Iphigenia. Medium close-ups of the two block-ships.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 358
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company) Bassill, F A (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Iphigenia (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Intrepid (regiment/service) Royal Navy, Thetis (regiment/service) Royal Navy, ML532 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British naval - cruiser: Iphigenia & [expended] (object name) ships, British naval - cruiser: Intrepid & [expended] (object name) ships, British naval - cruiser: Thetis & [expended] (object name) ships, British naval - light forces: ML532 (object name) ships, British civilian - cargo: Brussels & [expended] (object name) defences, German - emplacement (object name) weapons, German - gun: 150mm coastal gun & [captured] & [wrecked] (object name) 12/3(261.2).842 (event) 31/3(493) (event) Zeebrugge, West Flanders, Belgium (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: 408 ft; Running time: 7 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 358

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