Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Hamburg
Series
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- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 2 / 4
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hamburg (Raid On). DESCRIPTION: The second largest city of the Reich, is being liquidated in a series of record attacks by the RAF. The shipyards, responsible for a quarter of their U-Boat production, are being heavily hit. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Dusk shots of Stirlings taking off, into camera, SV etc. LS of formations of Stirlings. Aerial shots of Hamburg at night, shows incendiaries falling in masses, & place well alight. Interior shots of mosaic built up from photos of Hamburg, shows officer (Scott) pointing out various places. Shots of mosaic on wall, & CU of various places badly hit, viz. warehouses, railway trains, marshalling yards, barges, gasworks & pan of same, & Blohm & Voss Plant.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Environment; Aviation; Railways; Business and commerce; Fires; Industry and manufacture; War damage; Military
- Footage sources
- British Paramount
Royal Air Force Film Unit [RAFFU]
- Card file number
- 43903
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Paul Wyand
- Length of story (in feet)
- 205
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