WARWORK NEWS NO 68

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: S15 68).

Synopsis

I. "The other man's job. Stormboats for war in Pacific." Scenes of the manufacture of stormboats, flat-bottomed craft specially designed for landing small groups of men and equipment on beaches in the Pacific. Ash logs arrive at a sawmill where they are stripped and cut into planks. Women help in the construction of the stormboats; completed craft leave factory on truck.

II. "RAF fly to aid Chinese." Dakota takes off from airfield in India, flies over the Himalayas and lands at Kunming where supplies are unloaded for the Chinese.

III. "Eve of assault in West." Troops advance towards Goch and long lines of prisoners trudge along in the opposite direction. Montgomery visits the front, driving in a jeep past an army column. Artillery and tanks fire at the enemy.

IV. "Rockets for the Japanese." Demonstration views of Allied flying bombs being fired out to sea, rocket-propelled shells being fired from a landing barge and rockets being launched from a truck (day and night views).

 

Titles

  • WARWORK NEWS NO 68
 

Technical Data

Year:
1945
Running Time:
9 minutes
Film Gauge (Format):
35mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Sound
Footage:
804 ft
 

Production Credits

Sponsor
Ministry of Supply
Production company
British Paramount News