Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Liberating Armies Invade Normandy
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- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
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- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Liberating Armies Invade Normandy. DESCRIPTION: D-Day landings of the Allied Forces on the Normandy Coast. A great armada crossed the Channel carrying forces of the United Nations, with United Kingdom, American and Canadian troops predominating. Minesweepers were the pathfinders leading the vessels across. Casualties received First Aid treatment on the beaches and were then evacuated. After a grim battle the little village of Bernieres was captured. Traffic across the beaches became two way with more troops landing and German prisoners being taken away. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS. GV Destroyer fires gun: background LCIs. AFU - jeeps driven across aerodrome followed by paratroopers. Pan of paratroops on ground. Paratroop cleans rifle, load jeep with arms and Bren-gun ammunition. Paratroops issued with 48 hours ration. Ground-staff paint recognition mark on C47s. Jeep loaded onto glider. Elevated shot of RAF Officers and paratroops briefed. CU Airborne troops (types). Airborne troops sharpen knives. Painting of Hitler, knives thrown at same. Paratroops set watches, march onto planes. British troops march through streets, boarding LSTs, march through streets, troops pass camera up gangway. Bren Carriers loaded onto LTCs. Elevated shots of tightly packed landing craft alongside each other. AFU - Eisenhower and Ramsay leave building, walk up to camera, enter car which drives off. (CU Montgomery - Library). GV of armada, several fly barrage balloons, LSTs, LTCs, LCIs etc. Ships pass camera. Aerial of Marauders in flight. Aerial of LCIs under way, also dawn shot. Aerial pan of aerodrome covered with C47 and gliders. Yank starts engine of plane. Planes and gliders taxi and take-off. GS of them over aerodrome. Aerial of armada. (GV Minesweeper, this is Ramsden’s material, various shots of craft off French coast, fire their guns, dawn shot of French coast smouldering, small fires, LCIs go in - bomb burst around them. CU on bridge, officers look through field glasses. Destroyer makes smoke, more LCIs come in). AFU - LTCs approach beach step through water to shore, GS AA (Bofors) beach. Beaches crammed with troops. GS wounded soldiers (in leg) attended to. Wounded on stretchers landed from LTD back in this country. Shots CU wounded troops. Back at sea off the coast of France, Yanks down nets over of ? LCIs. Troops off LCIs wade ashore, aerial of beaches, craft fire guns. Bren-carriers and troops along beaches, Sherman ditched in sea. GV French coast shows town of Bernieres and shots of smouldering and wrecked houses. Group in streets, have German prisoners, Frenchman with small Stars and Stripes Flag, prances about, picks up German helmet and slings same on ground. More pans of town. General views of activity on beach, shows Shermans, Bren-Carriers, Jeeps etc. crowded on beach.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Food and cooking; Weather; Environment; Weapons; Economics; Aviation; Railways; Arts and crafts; Fires; Communications; War damage; Prisoners of war; Occupied territories; Navy; Animals; Military; Religion and belief
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- APS
Army Film Unit
Canadian Film Unit
Gaumont
Pathe
Royal Air Force Film Unit [RAFFU]
Royal Canadian Air Force
Royal Canadian Navy
Universal
United States Army Air Force [USAAF]
- Card file number
- 44905
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Alec Tozer
- Camera
- J. L. Ramsden
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 642
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