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WWII - 1940, German Defenses & Air Force Bombing North Sea Coastline

Reel Number: 221731-04

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1940

Country: England,United Kingdom

Location:

TC Begins: 21:31:20

TC Ends: 21:40:17

Duration: 00:08:57

WWII - 1940, German Defenses & Air Force Bombing North Sea Coastline Nazi soldiers marching; workers / slave laborers ? in steel mill yard; shoveling slag into railroad cars; conveyor equipment working; iron furnaces; LS of industrial yard. Town street w/ pedestrians & tall chimneys in background. 20:32:17 Camouflaged artillery. 20:32:23 Night, CU search light rotating. 20:32:32 Interior men working on large factory floor; King George walking past. 20:32:36 Airmen w/ parachutes putting on helmets, goggles. Low angle of large barrage balloon w/ basket beneath. CU spotting binoculars; German officers & CU cranking warning siren; soldiers run out of earthen shelter & up coastal sand dunes w/ rifles, manning camouflaged artillery emplacements, large gun raised. 20:33:19 Small German amphibious biplanes taking off. POV from plane & air to air. 20:33:36 Line of German S-Boot / Schnellboot / PT boats racing on English Channel, sailors signaling, CU wake, swastika flags. 20:34:27 German (?) barrage balloons moved out of hanger w/ jeeps, across field & raised, CU cables & winch. 20:34:56 Hanger opened & large Dornier DO-18 (?) German amphibious biplanes towed out & prepared w/ guns, bombs, etc. Towed to water edge & lifted into water, taxiing & various views taking off. POV circling small ship. CU pilot; POV from plane over water. CU Map & navigator’s hands in cockpit. 20:38:06 Outdoors. CU hands pointing to north of Scotland on map. MCU pan of airmen on ground around map, looking during briefing. LS large twin-engine planes on grass airfield, airmen run to planes. CU caricature of British man in top hat & w/ umbrella; planes warming up, taking off, air to air w/ gunner bubble beneath. Over seashore to land; low over pt boats, intercut. 20:39:45 POV thru bomb bay doors as bombs dropped; gunner; propellors; pilot at controls; POV thru plexiglass plane nose along coast. WW2; Germany; Air Force; Navy;

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