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WWII: 1945ca, Operation PLUTO pipeline; FIDO fog dispersal; King’s Birthday Parade, Jerusalem

Reel Number: 221548-01

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1945

Country: England,France,Israel,Jordan,Palestine,United Kingdom

Location: Jerusalem,Kent

TC Begins: 15:00:00

TC Ends: 15:10:25

Duration: 00:10:25

15:00:18 Title: News From England 15:00:23 Title: Operation Pluto - Continuing Network To Supply A.E.F. over map illustration, London to France. Pan over cliffs at edge of English Channel. 15:00:50 Dummy resort disguised pumping station w/ buildings & signs for golf course; Brown’s Ice Cream; suburban houses. 15:01:10 Int. pumping station w/ valves. Man running machinery to wrap steel pipe w/ tape & tar then wrapped in wire & tar over that. 15:01:52 Tugboats w/ huge roll of piping laying off the pipe from the floating reel or drum. HMS Conundrum was name of cotton reel used. CU pipe, floats & markers & reel. Map showing overland pipeline to Belgium & Eindhoven, Holland. Men attaching pipeline on beach. 15:03:04 Soldier on telephone control. CU of pumps working. Tanks moving w/ troops following. Swish pan 15:03:31 FIDO Fog, Intensive Dispersol Of. Fog raising from countryside. MCU of flame at end of pipe on ground; ground ignited below tube & burning to lift the fog. Aerial of airfield w/ flames around it on edge of English Channel; Bomber airplanes landing over & POV from landing plane. Crew on ground in front of plane. 15:05:17 Title: India. Repatriated Prisoners. At ship rail. Richard Casey, Bengal governor, & officers boarding ship in Calcutta to greet after liberation by Japanese in Rangoon. British, American, Chinese & Indian. Some on stretchers carried off ship into ambulance. Starved. Nurses & others attending, 15:06:51 Title: Jerusalem. King’s Birthday Parade. Line of troops; dignitaries w/ Field Marshall Lord Gort of Palestine & Transjordan (31Oct44-29Nov45) reviewing troops in front of YMCA, tilt up, crowds watch from street, roof & roof of Shell service station. Tanks, personnel carriers, artillery in line. Nurses, priests & others watch marching troops. Woman taking still picture. 15:07:59 Seated dignitaries. Other shots. Liberator bomber fly-over. Scottish troops marching. Arabs watching. Shot from high angle. Riders on horseback w/ Arab police. People on top of ?? domed roof. Mounted troops w/ pennants. Camel Corps. Applauding military. Flags on staff in breeze. The End. WWII Inventions; Camouflage; Petroleum; Oil; Gasoline; Ceremony; Royalty; Near East; 1940s; 1945; Celebration;

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