DIE DEUTSCHE WOCHENSCHAU SEQUENCES - 4 [Main Title]

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Two separate newsreel items on German surface raiding by an armed merchant cruiser and by the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer.

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I. Unidentified armed merchant cruiser in warm waters sights a freighter and puts a search party aboard. German crew are in tropical whites. Enemy freighter is Greek registered Etones. Signalling. Search party are ordered to lay explosives. Crew are rescued and search party regains cruiser, which acquires piano as booty, played by sailor. Ship sinks after explosion. Sarcastic reference over Caucasian, oriental and black crew members to British mercenaries. Next ship is identified as British armed merchant cruiser, halted by a salvo, has crew rescued and is sunk by shelling. View of naval PK cameraman filming. (334 ft) (Item 1 of DW 556/19/41 of 30/4/1941)

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II. Admiral Scheer on her raiding cruise between late October 1940 and March 1941. British refrigerator ship Duquesa is intercepted in South Atlantic and boarded by search party and cameraman. View across to Scheer and Captain Krancke (?). Millions of eggs are transferred from the British to the German vessel. Scheer (18/12/40) sinks Duquesa with secondary armament as crews watch. Cruise continues through tropical squalls. Three more vessels are sunk (view of oriental crews on deck), one blazing at night. (Many gaps on soundtrack) (451 ft) (Item 11 of DW 563/26/41 of 18/6/1941)

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35mm

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Category: Film
Related period: Second World War (content)
Creator: UFA (Production company)
Baierlein (Production individual)
Bergmann (Production individual)
Breselow (Production individual)
Claus (Production individual)
Eckart (Production individual)
Ertl (Production individual)
Fischer, Arthur (Production individual)
Frentz (Production individual)
Gessl (Production individual)
Grund (Production individual)
Hammer (Production individual)
Heyden, Eberhard von der (Production individual)
Hrich, Walter (Production individual)
Kandeler (Production individual)
Katzke (Production individual)
Kaul (Production individual)
Linke (Production individual)
Liphardt (Production individual)
Lösche (Production individual)
Lötsch (Production individual)
Noak (Production individual)
Raithel (Production individual)
Rohde (Production individual)
Selbach (Production individual)
Theyer (Production individual)
Umlauf (Production individual)
Walter (Production individual)
Weiss (Production individual)
Wild (Production individual)
Production date: 1941
Place made: Germany
Dimensions: whole: 1
Catalogue number: GWY 1233

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