Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: To the Shores of Sicily
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- British Movietone News
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- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: ‘Shores of Sicily’ - CAFU Copyright. DESCRIPTION: The invasion of Sicily has begun - anxiously we heard the news that day; then with proud relief we learned of the operation’s success. First pictures of the great Allied achievement. SHOTLIST: Cut story - KS shot of sea and part of convoy. GS convoy & large transport, in line ahead. Various convoy shots, includes battleship of Rodney class & cruisers, destroyers etc aircraft carriers. Hoisting signal flags. GS island of Sambra, destroyer passing. Shot of Cape Bon. Cruiser & destroyer transfer military expert in bosun’s chair. Elevated shot of him pulled over side of ship, sailor throws rope from ship to ship VG. Elevated shot, troops sunbathing, swimming, mending boots, washing clothes & reading about Sicily on decks of ships. Barrage balloon out of control, various shots. GS sailor signalling with lamp, also at ‘the ready’ by the pom-poms. Pom-poms pivoting. Sea gets rough and wind to gale force. Landing craft, small craft & large transport plough their way through. Swell abates & calm sea with convoy on its way. LS coast of Sicily. Night bombardments, various shots, silhouettes of ships can be seen during firing. Dawn shot of coast. Canadians landing (silhouettes) on beaches, various troops wading ashore. Sun rising at sea. Pan of convoy & shore batteries fire (unseen), hits fall in water, supply-ship hit, GS of same. Also three oil fires burn on water. Elevated shots troops landing, all angles. Troops leave side of ship (elevated) LCI leaves side of ship. GS of LCI & LCTs. CU Bows of transport. GS of beach, troops march into camera along same. Lorries & Sherman tanks coming ashore (Sherman’s have twin exhausts). Moving over cobbles. ‘Duck’ [sic] comes ashore, also another with camera aboard shooting, the result is everything topsy-turvy. CU types of POW. Give ‘V’ sign. CU types of our troops.
- Keywords
- Mass media; Ships and boats; Entertainment and leisure; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Weather; Environment; Weapons; Aviation; Fires; Communications; War damage; Prisoners of war; Censorship; Navy; Military; Religion and belief
- Footage sources
- Army Film Unit
Canadian Film Unit
Gaumont
- Card file number
- 43855
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Graham T. Thompson
- Camera
- James Humphries
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 515
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'Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: To the Shores of Sicily', British Movietone News Issue No. 737A, 22 Jul 1943. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/12775 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)