BOATS AND BOATWORK (1942) (RUSHES 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: BOATS AND BOATWORK (1942) (RUSHES 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 626
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  • Description: I. Miscellaneous naval material. MS of Camper and Nicholson motor gun boat/motor torpedo boat LS pan across convoy. Small motor boat in port. Pan around anchorage showing minesweeper and tugs - oil storage tanks in the background. Dusk - aerial view of Short Sunderland over a convoy, MS along line of Fairey Barracudas preparing for take-off. Stern 3/4 MS of W Class destroyer, G.55 (HMS Longbow). Stern 3/4 MS of Hunt Class destroyer escort, L.85 (HMS Heythrop). Forward 3/4 MS of HMS Repulse in heavy weather - main armament is traversed to port and fires. II. Rushes for the instructional film "Boats and Boatwork" - lowering and hoisting of a seaboat filmed from an A Class destroyer, H.12 (HMS Achates).
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1942
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor) Royal Navy Film Section (Production company) Tennyson, Penrose1912-08-261941-07-10Eldest great-grandson of the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 791 ft; Running time: 9 mins
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  • Notes: Remarks: Film of HMS Repulse is very impressive. Production credits: (6/12/2001) Thanks to Joe Mendoza.
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