Reel

A Harbour Goes To France

Clip#:
Audio:
Location:
533969_1_1
Yes
Europe & Canada
Year Shot:
Video:
Timecode:
1943  (Estimated Year)
B/W
01:02:21 - 01:03:01
Tape Master:
Original Film:
HD:
1987
HSC 122
N/A
From the British Ministry of Information. This is a film about an engineering feat put about by the British army: before and during the Normandy Invasion of June 6, 1944, Allied forces built a series of floating causeways and bridges in the English Channel, creating a man-made harbor (code named 'mulberry'). MS of Winston Churchill seated and working at a desk. CU of a special memo on his desk written in 1942 expressing need to build harbor. LSs Harbor being built along coastline, nice shot w/blimp hovering is seen. Establishing view of Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City, Quebec. MS of Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt talking at Conference.