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The courage and service of the British merchant seaman, typified by the story of a Newfoundlander who had been torpedoed four times, related in an interview in his room as he packs for a new trip.
After an opening ...
A tribute to the "new Empire of the British Commonwealth of Nations" and more specifically to King George VI.
The King is "a symbol of unity" who links the Empire in "geography, history and destiny" and also an ...
An optimistic Vichy/German newsreel produced just before Stalingrad and Alamein is used as a basis for ironic British commentary following those events.
Opening titles explain that the newsreel was ...
Mute print of film showing the life of Royal Navy crews defending the Atlantic convoys during the Second World War.
New crews arrive at ships, and go through routine processing - having medical inspection, receiving ...
King George VI visits Malta in June, 1943, after visiting the troops in North Africa.
'This film is presented to Malta, GC, by His Majesty's Government as a permanent record of a historical occasion'. The film shows: ...
START 10:00:00 Film title and intertitles "At Algiers on September 6, 1943, General Eisenhower and Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham assigned me to witness the surrender of the Italian fleet... Departing from Malta the evening of ...
START 00:00:00 Scenes filmed in slow motion during a practice gunnery shoot off Scapa Flow, possibly 16 June 1943: a gunnery officer (?) scanning the sea through a pair of binoculars on the bridge of HMS Nelson, a cloud of cordite drifting by as the ...
START 00:00:01 Panning shots of the naval anchorage at Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria, April (?) 1943: there are several tank landing ships (LSTs), a U or V Class destroyer armed with four twin 4-inch guns moored alongside the ex-cruiser turned fleet repair ...
I. "Bomber Assault - Bostons hit Valenciennes": Daylight aerial shots show British bombs falling on the assembly sheds, forges, and steel foundries of Valenciennes.
II. "Mr Churchill Returns from Moscow": the first meeting between the ...
