THE ENGINEER OFFICER [Main Title]

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  • Title: THE ENGINEER OFFICER [Main Title]
  • Film Number: COI 1152
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  • Summary: (Mute print only of) documentary about the life of a Royal Navy engineering officer.
  • Description: Life onboard frigate: ops room, bunkroom etc. Crew members talk. In the engine room, engineering officer talks to (off-screen) interviewer. More onboard scenes, including officers' mess and EOs at work. Submarine in Scottish loch: another EO interviewed. Apparent anti-submarine exercise (paravane, sonar). Training at shore station: main hall, engineering, laboratory, workshops. Helicopter (Lynx ?) taking off and also being maintained; another interview with technician. Engine room and Seaslug missile preparation is interspersed with more interviews.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (COI 1152)
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1975
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Defence (Navy) (Production sponsor) Central Office of Information (Production sponsor) Picture Palace Productions (Production company) Craddock, Malcolm (Production individual) Purcell, Glyn (Production individual) Crocker, Alistair (Production individual) Nelson, Andy (Production individual) Beeks-Sanders, Nick (Production individual) Davey, John (Production individual) Russell, Xavier (Production individual) Priest, Jonathan (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 770 ft; Running time: 16 mins
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  • Notes: Cataloguing: only a mute master negative exists at present, and film was viewed in this form.
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