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The Great Invasion Secret. How a Harbour Was Constructed off Normandy

Date released

26 Oct 1944

Series name

Gaumont British News

Issue no

1128

NoS ID

064341

Story no

3 / 4

Extras

1 commentary sheet

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Harbour Goes to France, A (1944 Film)

Subject

Engineering; Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Archive copy in the Imperial War Museum. The story of ‘Mulberry’, a prefabricated harbour larger than Dover Harbour, designed, tested and built in Britain, towed across the English Channel, and set down...

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D-Day Remembered: Documentary with reminiscences of wartime (1984)

D-DAY REMEMBERED [Series RADIO VICTORY ARCHIVE] A documentary, broadcast on Radio Victory, 6 June 1984, to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the D-Day landings in Normandy during World War Two, using the...

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Mulberry Harbour

Date released

26 Oct 1944

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

1490

NoS ID

147985

Story no

1 / 4

Vast dock built in Britain and towed to France.

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Factory-Made Invasion Harbour

Date released

26 Oct 1944

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

44/86

NoS ID

100524

Story no

4 / 4

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

Just-released film of Mulberry Harbour, the vast artificial harbours, secretly prefabricated in Britain which helped to make possible the invasion of Normandy. Two fully equipped ports, with huge steel and...

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Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Mulberry Harbour

Date released

26 Oct 1944

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

803A

NoS ID

013260

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mulberry Harbours. DESCRIPTION: The problem of landing reinforcements and supplies for the Second Front was solved by huge pre-fabricated harbours. The caissons which made up the...

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Recent Developments in War Technology

Date released

1945

Series name

The Gen

Issue no

16

NoS ID

080928

Story no

4 / 6

Film of Bofors gun, flame throwers, V1 flying bomb, and "scatter bombs". Not all recent developments are offensive, however - film illustrates Mulberry harbour, PLUTO oil supplies, FIDO runway illumination...

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Newsbriefs

Date released

15 Oct 1945

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

45/83

NoS ID

100829

Story no

2 / 3

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

The Atom bomb bursts on Nagasaki. First pictures. Emperor Hirohito visits bomb damage (captured Japanese pictures). Tojo’s attempted suicide foiled - bedside pictures. Broken sea-walls of Walcheren sealed...

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The Queen Wins the Oaks

Date released

10 Jun 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1462

NoS ID

021731

Story no

1 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Queen Wins the Oaks. DESCRIPTION: At Epsom, the Queen saw her horse Carroza win the Oaks, with Glider second and Rose Royale II third place. SHOTLIST: GV stand. Crowds. Crowd...

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Longest Day

Date released

12 Jun 1969

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

2088A

NoS ID

027888

Story no

1 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Longest Day. DESCRIPTION: As well as the ceremonies that took place all along the Channel coast of France, the D-Day landings are recalled most vividly through Movietone’s archives....

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