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To make our point a little more definite, here is a short extract from a straightforward passage of reportage in which extremely economic shooting, allied to good editing, has produced a simple yet exciting sequence.
MERCHANT SEAMEN1
Extract from Reel 3
About merchant ship convoys during the war, how they steered their way through mine-fields and protected themselves against submarines. The characters are a group of sailors whose ship is sunk at the beginning of the film. The extract is part of the sinking of a submarine which attacked the new ship on which the group of sailors were working. (" Nipper," who is the junior member of the crew, is the gunnery expert.) A U-boat is sighted and the captain has given instructions to man the guns. Men below are playing cards, a gramophone is playing. Shots of men hurrying to their guns on deck precede.
Round I
1 C.S. of gramophone playing.
2 " Nipper " runs into frame from the left and starts rotating the gun towards the submarine.
3 A man comes up on deck carrying a shell. Control Officer walks towards camera and looks through his field-glasses towards the submarine.
4 L.S. Shadow of submarine in the sea, within CO mask, i.e. as if seen through binoculars.
5 M.C.S. Control Officer peering through binoculars.
6 " Nipper " turning gun as instructed.
7 C.S. Gun base, as gun is turned to appropriate angle setting.
8 M.C.S. Control Officer looking through binoculars as in 5.
9 M.C.S. Sight-setter and "Nipper" at the gun.
10
C.U. " Nipper " sighting the gun.
Ft. fr. Gramophone playing a military I 6 march.
Gramophone music stops. 2
3 10
Control Officer : Enemy in sight.
6 9
Control Officer : Bearing red 090.
2 10
" Nipper " : Bearing red 090.
3
Control Officer : Train on periscope —
2 6
— range 010.
2
Sight-setter : Range 010.
1 9
" Nipper " :
Trainer on. Control Officer :
Deflection, 08 left.
2
Director : J. B. Holmes. Editor
R. Q. McNaughton. Crown Film Unit, 1941.
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