Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Paratroops Raid Normandy
Series
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- British Movietone News
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- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 2
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Bruneval Raid (Paratroops). DESCRIPTION: British paratroops carry out a successful attack on the radiolocation post at Bruneval in occupied Northern France. They have rehearsed the assault many times and carried it through with only light casualties. SHOTLIST: Shots of paratroops on small boats being lowered off the side of the big ships. Shot looking up from inside the boat as paratroopers get into boats. Troops in the boat. Ships being lowered. Ships in water moving along. Back shot of man waving flags as communication. Man firing gun. Men firing guns. Shots of the landing craft up to water’s edge. Men leaving boat and going ashore. Men lying on ground with guns. Men running back to landing craft. Shots getting on board the landing craft. Landing craft moves off. MCU Dog on board boat with life jacket on. Dog sitting near a black cat. Various shots of planes in the air. CU Pilot in cockpit whilst plane is in flight. Shots of the paratroopers in the plane ready to jump. Dusk - shots of the ships at sea. Various shots looking down from the plane to the ground below. Plane in flight. Shots of the paratroopers going out of the hatch in the plane. Paratrooper dropping and parachute opening. Shot from ground looking up and seeing the planes in flight with the paratroopers jumping from the plane and the parachutes opening. LS Paratroopers coming down to land. Paratroopers on ground running along. Troops crawling along ground towards a tree. Troops jumping through wall. Men lying near barbed wire fence. CU Man cutting the barbed wire fence. Various shot of the paratroopers keeping a look out etc. Troops jumping fence. Men jump on Germans and knock them to the ground. Men trying to push captured German along. Men running along. Landing craft out at sea. Various shots of a casualty being brought ashore and back onto the ship. Men jumping from the landing craft back onto the ship. Various shots of Commander Cook with Major Bromley Martin discussing the operation. Various shots of the men boarding the boat. Shots of German Prisoners coming aboard the boat. Shots of Wing Commander Charles Pickard looking at a German hat with the troops. Troops waving. Shots of landing craft coming back to the boat.
- Keywords
- Weapons; Aviation; Communications; Safety devices; War damage; Prisoners of war; Occupied territories; Navy; Animals; Military
- Card file number
- 41989
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 238
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