Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Home Fleet Puts to Sea

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
875
Date Released
11 Mar 1946
Date submitted
4 Mar 1946
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Glamorous "Firemen" to the Rescue
  2. 2Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Home Fleet Puts to Sea
  3. 3Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Churchill’s Missouri Speech

Story

Story No. within this Issue
2 / 3
Section Title
Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Home Fleet Leave for Exercises. DESCRIPTION: Ships of the Home Fleet depart from Portland on the first Spring cruise since the war. Their first port of call was to be Gibraltar. SHOTLIST: KS LS cruisers HMS "Diadem" and HMS "Birmingham". Elevated shot and various shots of destroyers passing Bincleaves Arm, destroyers of the "R" class. Line ahead of destroyers steaming out of camera. HMS "Birmingham". CU Passing Bincleaves Arm, camera pans whole length of cruiser. Various shots of battleship HMS "Nelson", various parts of the ship also.
Keywords
Navy; Military
Locations
Portland
Card file number
46626
Credits:
Camera
John W. Cotter
Commentator
Lionel James Gamlin
Camera
Paul Wyand
Camera
Richard Harris
Length of story (in feet)
107
Story extras:
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