- Title: VM-1208
- Summary: U-BOOTE EM FEIND: LIFE ABOARD GERMAN U-BOAT - CAMERA FOLLOWS GERMAN SUBMARINE (U-BOAT) AT SEA. RECORDS THE ACTIONS ON BOARD BEFORE AND DURING ATTACKS ON MERCHANT SHIPPING IN THE ATLANTIC DURING WWII.
- Description:00:01:04 - MS TORPEDO BEING LOADED ON BOARD SUBMARINE VIA BLOCK AND TACKLE. CAREFULLY LOWERED INTO CONING TOWER OF SUB AND FINALLY INTO THE TORPEDO TUBE INSIDE SUB AS GERMAN OFFICER SUPERVISES. MUSCULAR SHIRTLESS SAILORS TUG ON TORPEDO. MEN WATCH AS THE TORPEDO IS LOWERED INTO SUB, INTO TUBE. 00:02:00 - CU TORPEDO ENTERING TUBE TOWARDS CAMERA POV INSIDE TUBE. 00:02:15 - SHIP'S OFFICERS SIT IN SMALL OFFICE PERUSING PLANS. MS COMMANDING OFFICER ENTERS, ALL STAND, "HEIL HITLER", SALUTE, ALL FOUR SIT, DISCUSS PLAN (IN GERMAN). 00:02:39 - MS SMALL GERMAN WARSHIP AT SEA. SAILOR ON SUB CALLS DOWN FROM DECK OF SUB (TELLS OF APPROACHING WARSHIP ?). POV BELOW DECK LOOKING UP. VARIOUS SHOTS WARSHIP PASSING SMALL BUOY TO SUB VIA ROPE. BUOY BEING PULLED ABOARD SUB AND ACROSS DECK. SAILOR TAKES OUT MESSAGE FROM BUOY, RUNS BELOW, TAKES IT TO SHIP'S OFFICERS IN OFFICE. 00:03:18 - COMMANDING OFFICER READS MESSAGE CONTAINING ATTACK ORDERS (?) COMMANDER GIVES ORDERS TO MEN, ALL RUN TO THEIR STATIONS. MLS VARIOUS SHOTS SUB RIDING ALONG SURFACE AT FULL SPEED. COMMANDER ON CONING TOWER PEERS THROUGH BINOCULARS, SHOUTS COMMANDS. OFFICERS PLOTTING DIRECTIONS. ALL RUN BELOW, AS SUB SUBMERGES. CAPTAIN LAST, CLOSES HATCH. 00:05:14 - MLS SUB SUBMERGING. OFFICERS TALKING. GAUGE SHOWING DEPTH OF U-BOAT. CAPTAIN PEERING THROUGH PERISCOPE. MS VIEW OF PERISCOPE PEERING THROUGH WAVES. CAPTAIN LOWERS PERISCOPE. MS VIEW OF PERISCOPE SUBMERGING BENEATH WAVES. MEN WORKING WITH VALVES. MS SAILOR COOKING EGGS IN FRYING PAN ON SMALL STOVE. MLS SUBMARINE SURFACING. VIEW OF SUN BREAKING THROUGH CLOUDS. PAN CLOUDS. LS SUNDOWN ON HORIZON. 00:07:13 - MS LOOKOUT SCANS HORIZON WITH BINOCULARS. CU CAPTAIN PEERING THROUGH BINOCULARS SPOTS SHIPS COMING TOWARDS HIM CU IRIS SHOT SHIPS SAILING TOWARDS CAMERA. POV BINOCULARS. ORDERS ARE GIVEN, SAILORS RUSH TO DECK TO MAN GUN. 00:07:50 - SAILORS HANDING SHELLS, ONE AT A TIME, UP LADDER TO DECK GUN CREWS. GUN CREW MANNING DECK GUN TOWARDS CAMERA. CAPTAIN ORDERS COMMENCE FIRING THROUGH MEGAPHONE. SAILORS FIRE GUN. LS SHELLS EXPLODING NEAR SHIP. LS SUBMARINE SPEEDING (L TO R), ON SURFACE AND FIRING DECK GUN. LS DIRECT HIT ON DECK OF SHIP IN DISTANCE. MEN CONTINUE TO FIRE. SHELLS BEING PASSED TO DECK FROM BELOW. MORE OF SAME. 00:09:47 - LS BURNING, SINKING, MERCHANT SHIP IN DISTANCE, SUB IN F/G. CAPTAIN ORDERS CEASE FIRE. SPOTS ALLIED WARSHIPS IN DISTANCE. ORDERS ALL TO GET BELOW. 00:10:02 - GERMAN CREW AND OFFICERS QUICKLY LEAVE DECK, CAPTAIN LAST, GET READY TO SUBMERGE. PERISCOPE RISES BEFORE THEY DIVE. LS SUBMARINE SUBMERGING BELOW SEA. CU CAPTAIN PEERS THROUGH PERISCOPE. CU DEPTH GAUGE SHOWS SUB DIVING RAPIDLY 00:11:12 - LS HUGE SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS ON WATER AS WARSHIPS BEGIN FIRING DEPTH CHARGES. CU SUB GAUGE CONTINUES SHOWING RAPID DIVE. LS MORE HUGE SURFACE EXPLOSIONS. 00:12:23 - CU GAUGE SUDDENLY SHOWS SUB NO LONGER DIVING. CAPTAIN SHOUTS COMMANDS, AS SAILOR HAS TROUBLE TURNING STUCK VALVE. HE TRIES HARD TO TURN IT UNTIL IT FINALLY TURNS, GAUGE NOW SHOWS CONTINUED DIVE. CU HUGE DEPT CHARGE EXPLOSION ON SURFACE OF WATER. MS SAILORS IN SUB TRY TO KEEP THEIR BALANCE AS SUB SHAKES, LIGHTS FLASH. SAILORS HURRIEDLY RUN TO SAFER SECTION OF SUB. CAPTAIN GIVES ORDERS IN GERMAN. 00:13:26 - CU DEPTH GAUGE SHOWS SUB BEGINNING TO SURFACE AS DANGER ENDS. MEN WORKING AT THEIR POSTS. CAPTAIN RAISES PERISCOPE, PEERS THROUGH. SEES NOTHING BUT VERY ROUGH SEAS. VARIOUS SHOTS SWELLING WAVES AS SUB SURFACES IN VERY HEAVY SEAS. VARIOUS SHOTS MEN IN RAIN GEAR ON DECK, POUNDING WAVES AND RAIN OF A SQUALL. CU DEPTH GAUGE READING SHOWS SUB SUBMERGING. 00:16:20 - CU VARIOUS SHOTS CaPTAIN AND OFFICERS PLAYING CARD GAME IN HIS QUARTERS. SAILORS RELAXING, WRITING LETTERS, READING BOOKS. LAUGHING, HORSING AROUND IN TIGHT QUARTERS. CU SAILOR PLACES APPLE ON TABLE, SMASHES HIS HAND ON IT, OTHERS GRAB AND EAT THE PIECES. 00:19:10 - CU ALARM RINGING. SUBS CREW AND OFFICERS JUMP INTO ACTION. RUSH TO THEIR POSTS. MORE OF SUB ON SURFACE OF ROUGH WATERS DURING STORM, MEN WEAR RAIN GEAR, ARE POUNDED BY RAIN. MEN IN RAIN GEAR PEER THROUGH BINOCULARS FOR SIGNS OF PREY. CU IRIS SHOT OF CONVOY AS POV BINOCULARS. ALARM SOUNDS MEN JUMP INTO ACTION, MAN THEIR POSTS BELOW. CAPTAIN PEERS THROUGH PERISCOPE, SPOTS CONVOY (IRIS SHOT). 00:21:15 - CAPTAIN GIVES ORDER TO FIRE TORPEDO, SAILOR PRESSES BUTTON, TORPEDO GUSHES OUT OF SUB, HEADS FOR PREY. SAILOR FIRES SECOND ONE. MLS HUGE EXPLOSION AS SHIP IS HIT. 00:21:37 - MLS SHIP SINKING. SUB SURFACING. VARIOUS SHOTS SUB SPEEDING ACROSS THE SURFACE, VOICE OVER CHOIR SINGING GERMAN PATRIOTIC SONG. CU GERMAN FLAG WITH NAZI SWASTIKA WAVING IN THE WIND. 00:22:27 - END.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1940
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: VM-1208