Moving Film Of Second Narvik Battle
LONDON, April 24. For the first time in history, a film of a naval action has been made while it was in progress. A naval cameraman from the deck of a British ship photographed the second battle at Narvik on April 13. The battleship Warspite and other British vessels are seen going into attack at dawn with all their guns in action, and German ships and shore batteries are seen replying. A number of German destroyers and transports are seen on fire, and others beached. Offsets German Film. Other sequences show the capture of the German transport Alster, in spite of efforts to scuttle her, and the rescue of H.M.S. Hardy’s wounded by the destroyer Ivanhoe. The newsreel, which will be released in Britain tomorrow, offsets the German film of the sinking of the destroyer Glowworm, which is at present being screened in Holland. An official British photographer is already in Norway, and soon there will be two more there and one in the Near East.
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Northern Advocate, 26 April 1940, Page 5
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