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America is Here

Item number (ISN):

20301

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1918

Item number (ISN):

20301

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

LOMBARD

Accession:

1969-0030

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1918

Production company:

F.W. Engholm (Producer)

Production credit:

producer/photography, F.W. Engholm

Sponsor:

Admiralty

Description:

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First Sea Lord, Sir Rosslyn Wemyss, visits the US destroyer base at Queenstown, Cork, in 1918.~Opening low angle long shot from a small boat as it crosses the bows of USS Melville, moored with two destroyers alongside (one a Tucker Class vessel). Wemyss comes on board with Commodore Brownrigg and Captain Marriott, to be greeted by Captain Pringle and the Melville's officers. Wemyss inspects crew and ship. Crew on quarterdeck, cheer for the camera and dance to the ship's band. "The Colour Problem": close-up of black orderly. Tall black rating posed alongside a shorter and fatter Caucasian as a humorous contrast (the white is a leading seaman, Gun Pointer first class, with two re-enlistments - he laughs heartily, the black rather wanly). Ship's mascot. Admiral Wemyss leaves the ship. Sequence showing suriviors of a torpedoed merchantman being disembarked from a British destroyer and a steamer - some enter waiting ambulances, others walk away past camera (one acknowledges its presence by raising his hands in a triumphal gesture). US destroyers in harbour - including USS Duncan (46). Medium shot track along waterfront to the Royal Cork Yacht Club. Bluejackets come ashore on leave. Naval patrol falls in for inspection. Close-up of Commander Arwyne, organizer of the men's entertainments. USN Men's club - billiards room and mess. Close-up as Wemyss commends Captain Pringle. Sunlight harbour scene. Final close-up of fluttering Stars and Stripes. <15mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

Notes:

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1. Description from the Imperial War Museum Catalogue Volume 1, IWM 564.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

26288

Format:

FILM

Location number:

N-1299

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

NITRATE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

63788

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8708-0066

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

NEG

Made from:

N-1299

Status:

PRT.ELEM

Vault ISN:

71456

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8801-0015

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

ANS PRT

Made from:

8708-0066

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

72015

Format:

FILM

Location number:

8801-0106

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

DUPE

Technical description:

POS

Made from:

8708-0066

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

268849

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V1 9511-0041

Number of items:

1

Duration:

100:00

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

995020

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V4 9511-0074

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

8308-0491
8221-0324
V1-57
7301-0020
8310-0052
8801-0015
8710-0172
8704-0233
7301-3297
8304-0210

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9511-0041

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

To be Determined / À déterminer

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