Title:GERMAN U-BOAT RETURNING TO SUBMARINE PENS [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ADM 437
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Summary: Mute film containing two episodes.
Description: I. Title sequence, 3.4 MS of Italian U-boat (Calvi Class). High angle view of Type VIIC U-boat entering harbour. MSD of captain and crew members on the conning tower, which bears a skull and crossbones symbol. High angle MS of two Italian submarines (Modified Calvi Class) alongside a crowded quayside. CU of sinking pennants - Destroyer USA 10,000 Tanker. High angle shot as Type VII U-boat comes alongside quay - snorting bull, flotilla symbol on the conning tower. MS of entrance of submarine pens - pan across to the bows of a Sperrbrecher vessel. Pen gates filmed from the conning tower of an approaching submarine - a crew member in the foreground has the flotilla insignia on his cap. MS of a submarine entering the pen. View from a U-boat upon entering. High angle shot of submarine lying bows-on in the shelter. MS pan along a U-boat with the crew assembled on deck.
II. Launch of a British destroyer hull, War Emergency Class. Assembled dignitaries are shown. Shot from the head of the slipway as the hull is launched.
