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

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
740A
Date Released
12 Aug 1943
Date submitted
6 Aug 1943
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Exiled Dutch Princess Baptised
  2. 2Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Hamburg
  3. 3Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Fall of Catania (First Pictures)
  4. 4Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Trailer: "The Coke Habit" - Save Fuel

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:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Camera
Paul Wyand
Length of story (in feet)
205
Story extras:
Film clip

• The first time you use this link in a session, you will need to log on at the British Movietone website and then click this icon again to see the film. For the remainder of the session, this link will take you directly to the film.

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name
AP Archive
Email
info@aparchive.com
Web
http://www.movietone.com
Phone
+44 (0)20 7482 7482
Series held
View all series held by AP Archive

Record Stats

This record has been viewed 70 times.