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Title:SAILORS OF TOMORROW (RUSHES 1) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 628
Other titles:BOATS AND BOATWORK (1942) (RUSHES 3) [Allocated Title]
Summary: Fragments joined by spacer. Synopsis based on only a partial viewing of the material.
Description: I. Seamen exercise - rope and wall climbing, indoor swimming pool.
II. Naval cutter and training ship HMS Implacable.
III. MS profile of U-Class submarine, HMS Uproar, running on the surface.
IV. MS of Fairmile 'B' ML which crosses screen left to right.
V. HA.MS of naval ratings massed on a parade square - they stand at ease. March past with air cadet band along seafront promenade.
VI. Portside forward 3/4 MS of HMS Hood at moorings. Barrage balloons overhead.
VII. MCU as a Churchill moves forward along the tank deck of a LCT - men watch from the side of the ship.
VIII. HA.MS as LCP9L R.2 approaches lock gates which the troops scale. MS of conventional beaching - men prepare to disembark.
IX. MLS across airfield. Hurricanes go by at low level.
X. MS as bulldozer comes up chespaling track from LCT. Equipment winched and manhandled up track. MS from on board LCT as men and motorcyclists go ashore. Jeep drives past along the beach. CU of 2nd Canadian Division comes ashore past the camera. Soldiers disembark carrying Bren LMG and W/T equipment. Men go up the beach with Red Cross marker flags, bicycle, etc. TLC 305 approaches the beach. Jeep disembarks.
XI. Troopship - men turned out in life jackets.
XII. Fairey Swordfish aircraft taxies.
XIII. MS off port bow of 'P' Class destroyer in choppy sea (aircraft carrier in background).
XIV. LS to trawler offshore, flying balloon barrage.
XV. Whaler pulls away from battleship - camera pans to follow (King George V Class moored in background). MLS to small boat over shoulder of rating signalling with Aldis lamp.
XVI. Flag deck of training ship - cadets hoist flags HA.MS of cutter secured to a boom. Ratings practise semaphore and man cutter over mooring boom.
Alternative Title:BOATS AND BOATWORK (1942) (RUSHES 3) [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Tennyson, Penrose1912-08-261941-07-10Eldest great-grandson of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (Production individual)