OPERATION AWKWARD (RUSHES 3) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: OPERATION AWKWARD (RUSHES 3) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 880
  • Other titles: UNDERWATER SABOTEURS AT WORK [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: Staged sequences of "saboteurs" planting underwater explosive charges (Malta ?).
  • Description: I. Night sequence. 'Saboteur' on a paddle board passes between two moored destroyers. II. Underwater sequence as two frogmen leave a cliff-side and swim off - they make towards the camera situated under ship's keel. One diver goes to the surface to reconnoitre. Saboteur places plastic explosive in ship's main underwater vent - the camera closes to give a CU of the explosive charge. III. MS as RN diver searches around ship's screw with an underwater light. He moves along the bottom of the ship, sweeping the hull with his hands - another diver works along the bilge keel. Diver discovers a clamp mine attached to the bilge keel.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1945-1975
  • Production Date: 1959
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor) Film House Productions Ltd (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: training, British naval - combat: sabotage, anti-ship (object name) operations [simulated], British naval - mines: clearance (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: 588 ft; Running time: 7 mins
  • Notes:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ADM 880

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