Scenes of Normandy coast soon after D-Day: German bunkers; big guns; sea walls

Title "The Governments of Great Britain and the United States Present" superimposed over shot moving across open water / title "Eve of Battle" superimposed over water / title "A Photographic Record of the Allied Expeditionary Forces Produced by Service Film Units" superimposed over water, pan to shore and cliff and beyond / big gun barrel wrapped in camouflage netting in fg, ships on water and outline of opposite shore in bg / pan of rows of men digging in front of big mound with maybe a conveyance device, buildings in bg / MS men working in area around big gun with its barrel protruding from large German bunker / WS pan over bunkers and buildings / bunker by shore / large structure covered with camouflage netting, gun barrel lowering / bunker / probably soldiers on construction site, big camouflage painted gun barrel in fg / LS sea wall / looking out across water from gun turret, man inside raising gun barrel, numbers in increments marked in arc in front of gun, opposite shore in bg / water and sea walls / Note: exact day not known
Title "The Governments of Great Britain and the United States Present" superimposed over shot moving across open water / title "Eve of Battle" superimposed over water / title "A Photographic Record of the Allied Expeditionary Forces Produced by Service Film Units" superimposed over water, pan to shore and cliff and beyond / big gun barrel wrapped in camouflage netting in fg, ships on water and outline of opposite shore in bg / pan of rows of men digging in front of big mound with maybe a conveyance device, buildings in bg / MS men working in area around big gun with its barrel protruding from large German bunker / WS pan over bunkers and buildings / bunker by shore / large structure covered with camouflage netting, gun barrel lowering / bunker / probably soldiers on construction site, big camouflage painted gun barrel in fg / LS sea wall / looking out across water from gun turret, man inside raising gun barrel, numbers in increments marked in arc in front of gun, opposite shore in bg / water and sea walls / Note: exact day not known
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Editorial #:
638862126
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
June 01, 1944
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License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released. More information
Clip length:
00:01:20:16
Location:
France
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr002260_01_01.mov