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II. Sequence showing Captain A C A Duckworth of the Belfast on the bridge during a shoot - he is looking through his binoculars.
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I. Reel One. Vice-Admiral Clarke USN, C-in-C Seventh Fleet, disembarks from helicopter on quarterdeck of HMS Belfast - he is received by Rear-Admiral Scott-Moncrieff.
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III. Memorial service onboard HMS Ocean. Service read by the Reverend W R Richardson, and presided over by Rear-Admiral Scott-Moncrieff. Lieutenant J A Taylor, observer from an aircraft which ditched with the loss of the pilot, casts a cross of flowers into the ship's wake. After the ceremony, crewmen disperse along the flightdeck, where Sea Furies are taking the sun.
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IV. Reel Two. HMS Belfast, off Inchon. CU as the C-in-C Far Eastern Station, Vice-Admiral The Honourable Sir Guy Russell, is piped onto the quarterdeck - he shakes hands, blows his nose. HA to motor launch alongside as General Cassels comes onboard - he is greeted by Captain Duckworth, and introduced to the ship's senior officers.
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V. HMS Belfast bombards the Amgak peninsula at the mouth of the Taedong River. MS forward on the port beam of Belfast, moving onto the port bow - A turret commences firing to port. Belfast has starboard anchor catted and is stationary, or just creeping. MS off the port quarter to X and Y turrets, trained fore and aft with X turret guns at high elevation - frame left cuts off the body of the ship just forward of the mainmast, and the picture is rather unsteady from the motion of the camera-boat - X turret tries a series of ranging shots with right hand barrel before firing a series of full salvoes - X turret changes target, and fires a series of full salvoes at almost zero degrees elevation. LS to the coast, where a pall of smoke covers the shoreline - at the end of the shot the cameraman misjudges, and the coastline drops below the bottom of the screen.
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I. Reel One. Vice-Admiral Clarke USN, C-in-C Seventh Fleet, disembarks from helicopter on quarterdeck of HMS Belfast - he is received by Rear-Admiral Scott-Moncrieff.
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II. Sequence showing Captain A C A Duckworth of the Belfast on the bridge during a shoot - he is looking through his binoculars.
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III. Memorial service onboard HMS Ocean. Service read by the Reverend W R Richardson, and presided over by Rear-Admiral Scott-Moncrieff. Lieutenant J A Taylor, observer from an aircraft which ditched with the loss of the pilot, casts a cross of flowers into the ship's wake. After the ceremony, crewmen disperse along the flightdeck, where Sea Furies are taking the sun.
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IV. Reel Two. HMS Belfast, off Inchon. CU as the C-in-C Far Eastern Station, Vice-Admiral The Honourable Sir Guy Russell, is piped onto the quarterdeck - he shakes hands, blows his nose. HA to motor launch alongside as General Cassels comes onboard - he is greeted by Captain Duckworth, and introduced to the ship's senior officers.
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V. HMS Belfast bombards the Amgak peninsula at the mouth of the Taedong River. MS forward on the port beam of Belfast, moving onto the port bow - A turret commences firing to port. Belfast has starboard anchor catted and is stationary, or just creeping. MS off the port quarter to X and Y turrets, trained fore and aft with X turret guns at high elevation - frame left cuts off the body of the ship just forward of the mainmast, and the picture is rather unsteady from the motion of the camera-boat - X turret tries a series of ranging shots with right hand barrel before firing a series of full salvoes - X turret changes target, and fires a series of full salvoes at almost zero degrees elevation. LS to the coast, where a pall of smoke covers the shoreline - at the end of the shot the cameraman misjudges, and the coastline drops below the bottom of the screen.
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35mm