Cargoes 1939
Documentary
Shot in mid-1939 as S.S. Ionian (also shown as Her Last Trip), Humphrey Jennings’s GPO short follows the Royal Mail steamer on a last peacetime run through the Mediterranean—Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Haifa—under the gaze of the Mediterranean Fleet (HMS Barham, Malaya, Warspite). After the Ionian was sunk by a German mine on 29 November 1939 en route from Crete to Hull, the film was recut and released as Cargoes.
Crew
- Director
- Humphrey Jennings
- Producers
- Alberto Cavalcanti
Details
- Release date
- Jan 2, 1939
- Runtime
- 9 min
- Status
- Released
- Studios
- Travel and Industrial Development Association, GPO Film Unit
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
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