Reel Number: 250038-20
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1939
Country: England,Great Britain,United Kingdom
Location: belfast,Northern Ireland
TC Begins: 02:20:06
TC Ends: 02:21:16
Duration: 00:01:10
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World-Wide News Events - Belfast, Ireland (1939) 02:20:12 Naval officers & civilian VIP couple, she w/ bouquet; couple walks past crowd. 02:20:18 CU enormous propellor of HMS Formidable (67). Men knocking timber blocks, cribbing collapsing w/ steel beams next to camera. 02:20:26 VIPs on launching platform, bottle breaking & ship sliding away. Steel beams moving & ship hull past. 02:20:37 MCU of VIPs on platform watching. Aircraft carrier hull into water & tugs around it. 02:20:47 People looking at collapsed cribbing & pan over heavy damage the length of the ways. 02:21:01 Broken heavy braided wire cable; twisted steel. LS past to carrier w/ men on deck. British Military Ship Launching; 17Aug39; Pre-WW2; Pre-WW2; Harland & Wolff Shipyard;