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
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DETAILS
Editorial #:
638862126
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
June 01, 1944
Upload date:
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
- Normandy,
- D Day,
- World War II,
- Germany,
- Military Invasion,
- Newsreel,
- USA,
- 1940-1949,
- Accuracy,
- Adult,
- Archival,
- Army Soldier,
- Black And White,
- Bomb Shelter,
- British Military,
- Building Exterior,
- Camouflage,
- Cliff,
- Coastline,
- Composite Image,
- Conflict,
- Construction Site,
- Conveyor Belt,
- Day,
- Digging,
- Documentary Footage,
- Film - Moving Image,
- Film Composite,
- France,
- Geographical Locations,
- Gun,
- Gun Barrel,
- HD Format,
- Heap,
- In A Row,
- Looking,
- Lowering,
- Measuring,
- Men,
- Military Ship,
- Motion,
- Netting,
- Outline,
- Produced Segment,
- Protruding,
- Real Time Video,
- Sea,
- Ship,
- Transportation,
- UK,
- US Military,
- Video with Sound,
- Water,
- Working,
- Wrapped,