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Go to HomepageReel Number: 250039-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1941,1944,1940s
Country: Australia,Denmark,England,Germany,United Kingdom
Location: Denmark Strait,Sydney
TC Begins: 04:00:01
TC Ends: 04:04:50
Duration: 00:04:49
Title. 04:00:05 MS ship w/ camouflage paint, waves break over bow of battleship as gun turrets turn. Side view of ship w/ guns in firing position. 04:00:15 British sailors hoisting large shells from barge or hold & rolled across deck on wagon. MLS of ship firing barrage. CUs. Ship in distance w/ smoke. Captain w/ binoculars. Ships firing guns. 04:00:50 Launch in harbor; wounded carried & helped off. 04:01:00 Unid. older 3-stack navy ship seen from water. Navy crew waving on shipboard beneath reconnaisance plane on launch. Aircraft carrier from water, brief shot of nameplate Victorious, biplane w/ folded wings moved on deck. 04:01:24 ?? shakes hands w/ Rear Admiral Lancelot Holland on right. Sailors give thumbs up. LS HMS Hood. Naval officers place name plate Bismarck, 1941 on monument . NOTE: Bismarck was discovered by the battleship HMS Prince of Wales, & battlecruiser HMS Hood under Rear Admiral Lancelot Holland. Biplanes from HMS Ark Royal torpedoed Bismarck, jammed her rudder & the Bismarck eventually sank on 27May41 after other British ships involved in the chase including HMS Victorious. 04:01:40 CU large transport ship w/ camouflage paint docking; officers watching from dock. 04:01:50 WACS down gangway, along dock. CU sign: Welcome Wacs & flowers; three WAC officers. 04:02:27 LS posing for newsreel cameras, standing & singing. Male & female Army officers walking on dock. WACs assembled & marching on field. One falls or drops pack & helped by soldiers. 04:03:19 Double deck bus w/ WACs, MCU & CUs. Off bus; at banana vendor; carrying baby kangaroos & feeding w/ bottles. Playing w/ squirrels or ?? as kids watch. Gag w/ furry animal inside uniform jacket. 04:04:44 CU holding young kangaroo. WW2; WWII; Women’s Army Corps; Animals; 1940s; NOTE: Probably WAC arrival in Sydney, Australia, May44. NOTE: If requested will provide two cards (04:00:01 - 04:05:50) at per reel rate.