- Title: VM-1202
- Summary: CONVOY: ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY PROTECTING ALLIED CONVOYS AGAINST GERMAN SUBS DURING WWII.
- Description:00:44:13 - FAST MONTAGE OF CANADIAN SAILORS SCRAMBLING OUT OF BUNKS, UP LADDERS AND TO THEIR GUN POSITIONS ON BOARD ROYAL NAVY WARSHIP (DESTROYER ?). 00:44:24 - SEAMEN READYING THEIR DECK GUNS, PUTTING ON EARPHONES, BATTENING DOWN THE HATCHES AS THEY PREPARE FOR BATTLE. 00:44:37 - MS OMINOUS SUBMARINE PERISCOPE STICKING OUT OF WATER SCANNING SEA AS IT CUTS QUIETLY OVER WATER. 00:44:39 - MONTAGE ORGANIZED CHAOS AS GUNNERS MAN VARIETY DECK GUNS. VOICE OVER ANNOUNCES, "THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY" TELLS HOW IT HAS GROWN INTO A POWERFUL FORCE AND OF ITS TASK OF ESCORTING CONVOYS OF THE UNITED NATIONS....". 00:44:49 - MS UNION JACK BRITISH FLAG BLOWING IN THE WIND. 00:44:51 - LS PAN CONVOY OF SHIPS AT SEA 00:44:57 - LS DESTROYER LAYS DOWN SMOKE SCREEN TO PROTECT CONVOY AGAINST SUBS 00:45:10 - MCU PERISCOPE SCANNING SEA 00:45:15 - ABOVE VIEW OF TORPEDO HEADING TOWARDS TARGET 00:45:17 - LS HUGE EXPLOSION AS TORPEDO HITS FREIGHTER 00:45:22 - FREIGHTER ROLLS OVER AND SINKS 00:45:25 - SUBMARINE SURFACING 00:45:27 - MLS SUBMARINE SURFACING. CANADIAN CORVETTE PURSUING THE SUB, SUB SUBMERGES AGAIN, AS CORVETTE FIRES AT IT. LS EXPLOSIONS FROM DEPTH CHARGED AND DECK GUNS. 00:45:31 - CANADIAN CORVETTE PURSUING THE SUB, SUB SUBMERGES 00:45:41 - CORVETTE FIRES AT SUB, EXPLOSIONS IN THE WATER 00:45:50 - SHELLS EXPLODING ON BATTLEFIELD 00:45:55 - TROOPS CHARGING OVER BODIES OF THE DEAD, TANKS ADVANCE 00:46:04 - GERMAN SOLDIERS SURRENDER WITH HANDS UP IN THE AIR, LOTS OF TANKS ADVANCE 00:46:14 - LS CONVOYS OF TROOP SHIPS AT SEA. VOICE OVER: "200.000 MEN TRANSPORTED, NOT A SINGLE LIFE LOST BY ENEMY ACTION". 00:46:33 - TWO SCOTTISH SOLDIERS (ON TROOPSHIP ?) SINGING AS ONE PLAYS GUITAR. CU ANOTHER PLAYING ACCORDION 00:46:42 - ARMORED CAR PASSING BRITISH PUB IN SMALL VILLAGE 00:46:48 - FREIGHTERS IN CONVOY AT SEA 00:46:52 - TWO GERMAN SUBMARINES SKIMMING ALONG SURFACE 00:46:56 - BOMBERS BEING TRANSPORTED TO SOVIET RUSSIA ON DECK OF FREIGHTER 00:47:01 - IRIS SHOT OF FREIGHTERS AS SEEN BY SUBMARINE PERISCOPE 00:47:07 - GERMAN SAILORS LOADING TORPEDO INTO TUBE, UNDERWATER SHOT OF TORPEDO EXITING SUBMERGED SUBMARINE TOWARDS TARGET, EXPLOSION ABOVE WATER 00:47:25 - MS FLYING TIGER WITH MARKINGS OF SHARK TEETH AND EYES ON P-40 NOSE SECTION, TAKES OFF IN CHINA TO BOMB JAPANESE. AERIAL SHOT HIMALAYAN MOUNTAINS IN TIBET. 00:47:32 - CHINESE SOLDIERS ADVANCING CARRY SUPPLIES ON POLE ACROSS THEIR SHOULDERS. CHINES VOICE OVER DESCRIBES SCENE. MORE CHINESE SOLDIERS ADVANCING IN CHINA. CHINESE ARTILLERY CREW FIRING CANNON. "WE WILL DRIVE JAPANESE INTO THE SEA". 00:47:53 - VARIOUS SCENES CONVOY ON WAY TO MURMANSK (RUSSIA) IN FREEZING WEATHER. 00:48:38 - MEN TRY TO BREAK OFF ICE FROM GUNS 00:48:47 - RUSSIAN ARTILLERY UNIT IN ACTION ON FROZEN BATTLEFIELD, EXPLODING SHELLS, FLYING DEBRIS, "ARTILLERY IS THE GOD OF WAR" 00:48:54 - VARIOUS SHOTS UNITS OF SOVIET SOLDIERS IN ALL-WHITE WINTER GEAR ADVANCE PAST DEAD GERMANS, MARCHING THROUGH THE SNOW. RUSSIAN VOICE OVER DESCRIBES SCENES 00:49:04 - RUSSIANS CRAWLING THROUGH SNOW ON THEIR STOMACHS. 00:49:09 - TANKS ADVANCE FORWARD IN THE SNOW 00:49:15 - VARIOUS SHOTS NAZI PLANES ATTACKING CONVOY. HUGE EXPLOSIONS. 00:49:39 - CREWMAN OF DESTROYED FREIGHTERS BEING RESCUED OUT OF THE SEA. SOME DEAD. 00:49:58 - LS SCREAMING NAZI DIVE BOMBER DIVES INTO SEA, EXPLODES. SHIPS IN HEAVY SEAS 00:50:20 - FLAG FLYING IN THE WIND ON BOAT DECK 00:50:53 - 27 YEAR OLD COMMANDER OF CANADIAN CORVETTE, FORMERLY AN INTERIOR DECORATOR IN VICTORIA. PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS FROM BRIDGE OF SHIP. 00:50:55 - MCU 1ST MATE, FORMERLY A LAWYER, ALSO ON DECK. 00:51:02 - CU NAVIGATOR / PILOT WORKS ON MAP IS FROM TORONTO. 00:51:07 - "AZTEC" OPERATOR (SUBMARINE DETECTION DEVICE) (SONAR ?), WITH HEAD PHONES IS FROM VANCOUVER. 00:51:18 - PAN FACE SHOTS VARIOUS COMMON SEAMEN GATHERED ON DECK WATCHING ANOTHER DO VARIETY KNOTS WITH A ROPE. 00:51:40 - CU FLAGMAN, SIGNALLING WITH FLAGS. 00:51:48 - ABOVE VIEW LONG LINE OF SAILORS TUGGING ON ROPE, AS VOICE OVER CHOIR SINGING CANADIAN NAVY SONG, "ROLL ALONG NAVY, NAVY ROLL ALONG." MORE SHOTS MEN AT WORK AT VARIETY TASKS ON CORVETTE. 00:52:35 - VARIOUS NAVY GUNNERS DOING GUNNERY PRACTICE ON DECK, LOADING, DRIVING HOME CHARGE, FIRING DECK GUN. 00:52:54 - VARIOUS SHOTS SAILORS DOING CALISTHENICS ON DECK. 00:53:03 - SAILORS PLAYING OLD SCHOOLYARD GAME "BUCK, BUCK".(HOW MANY HORNS ARE UP). 00:53:16 - SAILORS PRACTICING WITH BLOW UP LIFE VESTS. (CIRCA 1940S) 00:53:26 - PAN TO GUITAR LEANING AGAINST POST 00:53:33 - SAILORS PRACTICING SURVIVAL ON LIFE BOAT LOWER IT TO WATER, ROW AWAY. ACTUAL SHOT OF MEN ABANDONING SINKING SHIP ON LIFE BOAT. 00:53:55 - ABOVE VIEW OF SAILORS DIVING OFF SHIP AFTER VOICE OVER SHOUTS "ABANDON SHIP!" SAILORS DIVE AND JUMP INTO WATER NEAR RUBBER LIFEBOAT, CLIMB IN. 00:54:49 - PAN LONG ROW OF CORVETTES TIED UP SIDE BY SIDE AT SHIPYARD AS VOICE OVER TELLS OF CORVETTE VALUE IN SUBMARINE WARFARE. 00:55:24 - AERIAL VIEW OF CORVETTE SHIPS 00:55:30 - ANIMATED CHARTS SHOWING PROGRESS OF THE ROYAL CANADIAN NAVY 00:55:48 - SAILORS CLIMBING ABOARD SHIP WITH LARGE DUFFEL BAGS OF BELONGINGS. 00:55:51 - SAILORS SWABBING DECKS WITH HOSES AND MOPS 00:55:56 - CHART SHOWS RISE IN ENLISTMENTS. SAILORS MARCHING WITH RIFLES; 00:56:05 - CIVILIAN RECRUITS MARCHING WITH RIFLES AND BERETS 00:56:13 - CREWMAN PAINTING PICTURE 00:56:20 - ANIMATED CHART SHOWS NUMBER OF NAZI SUBS SUNK BY CANADIAN NAVY. 00:56:30 - SHIP STORES (FOOD AND DRINK, ETC.) BEING LOADED ON BOARD BY WORKERS 00:56:43 - PLANE BEING MOVED ON BARGE 00:56:47 - CANADIAN SAILORS SIT AT TABLE WITH GIRLS IN PUB DURING SHORE LEAVE. POSTER WARNS OF KEEPING SECRETS BY SAILORS WHILE ON SHORE. 00:57:00 - VARIOUS CARGO INCLUDING WARPLANES BEING TRANSPORTED ON SHIPS. DECK FULL OF ARMY TANKS. 00:57:25 - VARIOUS VIEWS OF TROOPS (MEN AND WOMEN) BOARDING TROOPSHIPS 00:57:43 - AERIAL VIEW OF CONVOY OF SHiPS 00:58:06 - CAPTAINS OF CONVOY SHIPS IN BRIEFING ROOM GIVEN INSTRUCTION. NAVY OFFICER /INSTRUCTOR ASKS CAPTAINS TO CHECK THEIR ORDERS, "IF YOU SEE ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T BELONG THERE, PLEASE REPORT IT TO ESCORT COMMODORE". ESCORT COMMODORE FOLLOWED BY SENIOR OFFICER OF ESCORT, SPEAKS TO CAPTAINS THEY ARE TOLD OF IMPORTANCE OF KEEPING CONTACT WITH THE ESCORTS. "BON VOYAGE AND HAPPY LANDING". 01:01:29 - VARIOUS SHOTS CAPTAINS AND OTHERS GOING TO THEIR SHIPS IN SMALL, MOTOR BOATS. 01:02:05 - VICE ADMIRAL INSPECTS CORVETTES BEFORE CONVOY LEAVES. VICE ADMIRAL SPEAKS TO THE MEN. FROM BRIDGE."REMEMBER A U-BOAT IS YOUR PREY, DESTROY THEM OR THEY WILL DESTROY US.......". 01:03:40 - VARIOUS SHOTS VARIETY LIBERTY CARGO SHIPS, GIANT TRANSPORTS, WARSHIPS, TAKING OFF TO SEA POV CORVETTE. 01:05:22 - CATALINA FLYING BOAT IN FLIGHT. 01:05:31 - AERIAL VIEWS CONVOY SHIPS. 01:06:13 - VARIOUS SHOTS CORVETTE COMMANDER DOING VARIETY TASKS. 01:06:40 - WARPLANE BEING CATAPULTED OFF SHIP. TO PATROL FROM SKY. 01:07:16 - "LOOKOUT" ON CORVETTE IS RELIEVED BY ANOTHER LOOKOUT (THE "EYES OF THE SHIP") WHO IMMEDIATELY PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS. CU SAME. 01:07:49 - WHISTLE BLOWS, VOICE OVER ANNOUNCES "GROG SPIRITS". MEN LINE UP FOR THEIR CUP OF GROG (LIQUOR) A TRADITION INHERITED FROM BRITISH NAVY). CU SAILORS DRINKS THEIR GROG. 01:08:11 - SHOT OF SHIP SAILING IN NORTH ATLANTIC THROUGH GALE FORCE WINDS AND ROUGH SEAS, SEAGULL FLIES BY 01:08:20 - SHOTS OF SWELLING ROUGH SEA. 01:08:41 - CIRCLE OF CREWMAN IN RAINCOATS, ONE MAN TRYING TO HOLD A MAP IN WINDY WEATHER 01:08:51 - SAILOR CLIMBS TO CONING TOWER DURING GALE. 01:08:56 - SHIP RISING AND FALLING IN THE ROUGH WAVES POV SHIP BRIDGE. 01:09:19 - GREAT SHOTS SWELLING WAVES, SHIPS BEING POUNDED BY THEM. 01:09:42 - MAN IN RAINCOAT GOES DOWN LADDER INTO SHIP CABIN WHERE OTHER MEN ARE 01:09:49 - SAILORS EATING, SMOKING, PLAYING CARDS AT TABLE 01:09:56 - CLOSE UP OF TATTOO ON MAN'S FOREARM 01:10:13 - SAILORS SLEEPING IN HAMMOCKS 01:10:24 - SIGNAL MAN IN RAIN GEAR SIGNALS WITH LIGHT AS FOG ROLLS IN. 01:10:37 - COMMANDER ON CORVETTE AND OTHERS LOOK OUT FOR COLLISIONS DURING FOG. 01:10:45 - MAN PULLS WIRE TO SOUND FOGHORN 01:10:56 - COMMODORE SIR FRANCIS AUSTIN ON SHIP IN FOG. 01:11:10 - ALL ALERT FOR COLLISIONS AS SHIPS MOVE ON DEAD RECKONING. 01:11:46 - CAPTAIN LOOKING THROUGH BINOCULARS 01:12:34 - AERIAL VARIOUS VIEWS HUGE CONVOY AS WEATHER CLEARS.. 01:12:57 - MAN SLEEPING IN RAFT 01:13:03 - DOLPHIN SWIMMING ALONGSIDE IN WAKE OF SHIP 01:13:13 - YOUNG COMMANDER DOING CHIN-UPS ON DECK 01:13:20 - SAILORS ON DECK SUNBATHING. . SAILORS WASHING DISHES. CU SAILOR WITH TATTOO HOLDS PET BLACK CAT IN ARMS. 01:13:20 - SAILORS WASHING DISHES 01:13:24 - SAILOR WITH STATTOO HOLDS PET BLACK KITTEN CAT 01:13:30 - FLOATING WRECKAGE CAUTIONS OF MENACE. 01:13:37 - SAILORS PREPARE FOR DEPTH CHARGES. LIFT HEAVY CHARGES INTO PLACE WITH BLOCK AND TACKLE 01:14:00 - CU SAILOR PLAYING LIVELY TUNE ON HARMONICA AS ANOTHER SAILOR PLAYS GUITAR, PAN TO FEET MOVING TO BEAT. 01:14:12 - SAILOR TAP DANCING TO MUSIC AND OTHERS WATCH IN AMUSEMENT 01:14:33 - LOOKOUT PEERING THROUGH BINOCULARS IS SILHOUETTED BY SUN FALLING ON HORIZON IN BACKGROUND. MORE TAP DANCING. 01:15:52 - LOOKOUT IN F/G SPOTS SIGNAL OF DANGER FROM SHIP IN DISTANCE. "SUBMARINE IN VICINITY". 01:15:59 - MAP OF SWASTIKAS SHOWS ENEMY SUBS. SONAR SCREEN INDICATES ENGINES OF SUB. 01:16:23 - COMMANDER LISTENS OVER HEADPHONES AND ORDERS CORVETTE TO SPEED TOWARDS SUB 01:17:14 - MEN RUN TO STATIONS, UNCOVERED, DEPTH CHARGES PREPARED. "ENEMY IN SIGHT" 01:17:44 - FLARE LIGHTS UP THE NIGHT SKY. "ENEMY IN SIGHT, ON TARGET, ON TARGET". 01:17:55 - SOUNDS AND FLASHES OF CANNONS FIRING. 01:18:13 - SONAR SCREEN SUDDENLY SHOWS NO TARGET. 01:18:23 - OFFICER LISTENS WITH EARPHONES. "WE'RE LOSING HER". "GONE, GOT AWAY". 01:18:41 - COMMANDER "WE CAN'T GET THEM ALL", "THAT'S THE WAY IT GOES". 01:18:48 - VOICE COMMANDER TELLS STORY OF WHEN HE WAS 1ST MATE ON ANOTHER CORVETTE WHEN THEY WENT AFTER THE "U-15" (SUB). 01:19:03 - COMMANDER (THEN 1ST MATE) RUNS TO DECK AS ALARM SOUNDS. 01:19:08 - MEN RUNNING TO "ACTION STATIONS". 01:19:33 - MEN MANNING THEIR GUNS, DEPTH CHARGES. WARNING FLAGS ARE RAISED. 01:19:54 - SMOKE RISING FROM SHIP IN CONVOY HIT BY TORPEDO. 01:20:11 - DEPTH CHARGE READIED. DEPTH CHARGE EXPLODES IN WATER. 01:20:29 - DEPT CHARGES ROLLING FROM RACK INTO WATER, PAN TO HUGE BLAST IN WATER. MORE OF SAME. 01:21:03 - CALM SEA AS EVERYONE WAITS FOR RESULTS. MACHINE GUNNER READY. 01:21:21 - SUBMARINE STARTS TO SURFACE, CANNONS, MACHINE GUNS FIRE. 01:21:42 - COMMANDER, BACK TO CAMERA WATCHING SUBMARINE ON SURFACE IN DISTANCE. "THAT'S FUNNY, THEY DON'T RETURN THE FIRE". 1ST MATE ORDERS "STAND BY, HOLD YOUR FIRE!" OFFICER ORDERS "FIRE ACROSS THE BOW" AS THEY SEEM TO BE SURRENDERING. 01:22:01 - MACHINE GUNNER FIRES. GERMAN SAILORS ON DECK OF SUB. "THEY'RE QUITTING, THEY'RE QUITTING". MACHINE GUN FIRES MORE ACROSS BOW. 01:22:23 - ARMED SAILORS CLIMB INTO ROWBOATS, ROW OUT TO SUB WITH CAUTION "THEY MAY BE FAKING". ABOVE VIEW SAILORS ROWING TO SUB. 01:22:52 - GERMANS WITH HANDS RAISED AS ROW BOAT ARRIVES. 01:23:24 - SAILORS CLIMB ONTO SUB, HOLD GERMANS AT BAY AS 1ST MATE QUESTIONS GERMAN 1ST MATE. 01:23:31 - GERMAN OFFICER SAYS, "NO! SHE BLOW UP" 01:23:39 - 1ST MATE CLIMBS DOWN TOWER INTO SUB TO INVESTIGATE. 01:24:11 - SAILOR CALLS DOWN TO 1ST MATE. "SHE'S (SUB) SINKING". 01:24:16 - HE CLIMBS OUT JUST AS SUB BEGINS TO SINK. ORDERS MEN TO "RUN FOR IT!", "GET TO THE BOATS, QUICK!" 01:24:22 - ALL JUMP INTO WATER 01:24:34 - NAZI TRIES TO CLIMB CONNING TOWER 01:24:35 - NAZI IS PUNCHED OFF TOWER INTO WATER BY 1ST MATE. 01:24:44 - 1ST MATE JUMPS OFF SUB AND INTO WATER TO SWIM FOR HIS LIFE 01:25:03 - HUGE BLAST AS SUB BLOWS UP. 01:25:07 - SAILORS ON CORVETTE CELEBRATE AS BOARDING PARTY CLIMBS ONTO CORVETTE WITH FIVE PRISONERS, NO CASUALTIES. 01:25:34 - CORVETTE HORN BLOWS SOUND OF SUCCESS. 01:25:39 - SIGNAL MEN SEND SIGNALS TO CONVOY WITH LIGHTS, "SUCCESSFUL ATTACK, SUBMARINE CAPTURED AND SCUTTLED". 01:25:50 - MONTAGE WARSHIPS FIRING BIG GUNS 01:26:35 - END
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1202