Battle Recaptured

Series

Series Name

Colour Pictorial

Issue

Issue No.

355

Date Released

16 Oct 1961

Date recorded

19 Sep 1961

Length of issue (in feet)

764

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Trick Shots
2. 2Harps
3. 3Battle Recaptured

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 3

Summary

NoS Summary - Scenes in France from the making of the film "The Longest Day", with Peter Lawford and Richard Todd. Lord Lovat advises the actors.
SHOTLIST: LS Horsa glider just landed in a field, we see soldiers running towards. MLS glider from another angle and an explosion in front of us. Soldiers running from smoke. LS troops gathering. MS Peter Lawford and Lord Lovat talking. MS Peter Lawford and Lord Lovat examine script. MS looking down onto actors Richard Todd and Major Howard. CU Todd as he chats with Major Howard. CU Major Howard. CU Todd and Howard. MS Lord Lovat instructing soldiers. CU Todd and another star. CU soldier being made up to look wounded. CU corporal showing private how to hold Sten gun. MS first aid man carrying wounded man. LS soldiers advancing under heavy fire. We pan to right from beginning of shot. Explosion behind soldiers. Step panning. Some soldiers dive for cover and others run out of pic. There is a boom in top right corner of pic. MS Soldiers rushing towards us. Behind them are wounded soldiers trying to move along. MS More wounded soldiers. LS Bridge. We see cameraman and director and other stage hands preparing for a battle scene. Director gives signal for explosions and we have two explosions on bridge. He then gives signal for actors to run across bridge amid smoke and debris. MS Cameraman working on camera. LS Soldiers running across bridge. LS Other side of bridge. We see number of soldiers running. We are panning from right to left from beg. as soldiers run to bridge. Explosion in background. They run into cover of bridge. MLS As they shelter behind bridge. A soldier from other side of bridge runs in and shakes hand with leader. Another explosion We see camera on a small trolley. MS Todd and fellow actor on bridge. Camera comes into pic. LS Looking down to bridge we see technicians in foreground and actors in background. We see a bullet bounce off bridge. LS Troops advancing over bridge headed by bag pipes. LS Camera crew on dolly. We see director calling troops forward, dolly tracks back. MS Dolly tracks back we pan with it. Stop panning with dolly and pan with on-coming troops. LS Troops advancing.

Keywords

Cinema; War and conflict

Locations

France

Written sources

British Pathe online database

Credits:

Commentator

David De Keyser

Length of story (in feet)

257

Story extras:

Film clip

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