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Title: SCAPA FLOW 1919: With All Flags Flying

Reference number: 4718

Date: 1986

Director: d. Mike Alexander

Sponsor: Channel Four Television

Producer: Mike Alexander and Douglas Eadie

Production company: Pelicula

Sound: sound

Original format: 16mm

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 52.00 mins

Description: The story of the scuttling of the German High Fleet in Scapa Flow, 1919. Interviews with academic experts, Orcadians present on a school trip and German naval officers who were there at the time. Features plenty archive film of actual events, old photographs and newspaper cuttings.

Credits: Archive Sources: Imperial War Museum; Pathe Film Library; Bundesarchive, Koblenz; Transit Film; Nordmark Film; Bildarchiv Preussischer Kulturbesitz; British Library; National Maritime Museum; Orkney Library; Wiener Library, London; The Scotsman; Illustrated London News; Popperfoto; Fischer Nautical Acknowledgements: Ulrike Seeberger; Ingeborg Sander (geb. Ruge); Yorck von Reuter; Vanessa Hardy; Gerhard Binanzer; Stromness Museum; Goethe-Institut, Glasgow

sc. Douglas Eadie
nar. Mary Riggans
special advisor Dan Van Der Vat, author of 'The Grand Scuttle'
ph. Michael Coulter
underwater ph. Slim MacDonnell
rostrum Stop Frame
gaffer Alex MacKenzie
ass. cameraman Norrie Halley
p. man. Darryl Collins
sd. rec.Phil Croal
dubbing mixer Tony Anscombe
ed. Fiona MacDonald
assistant Ian Adam
m. Nicky Ash
ass. p. Rex Cowan of World's Edge Films

Shotlist: REEL 1
titles, superimposed over underwater shots of shipwreck (1.12) archive black and white film footage of fleet (1.55) panning aerial shots of Scapa Flow (2.34) gvs harbour (3.09) archive black and white film footage of ship launch (3.59) talking head of academic, interspersed with archival film of the German fleet and general life on board ship, shots of fleet based at Scapa Flow and gvs scuttling taking place (12.23) interview with another man in room with German memorabilia (13.38) interviews with various German officers present at the time of Scapa Flow, interspersed with archive footage of events they describe (scuttling?) (17.18) Cleared for Action in case of treachery. A merry group of blue-jackets wearing anti-flash gear gvs same [archive film] (17.33) First glimpse of the inglorious procession. The German High Seas Fleet archive film of same and interviews with German officers (18.48) Admiral Beattie's historic signal- 'The German Flag will be hauled down at sunset, and will not be hoisted again without special permission' archive film of same The Battleship 'Fredrich Der Grosse'.... 'Hindenburg', the longest and most powerful Cruiser of the German Fleet.... the Battleship 'Kaiser' .... (19.35) interview with former German officer and further archive film (20.15) gvs Scapa Flow in present day, interspersed with some black and white archive film of the German Fleet and further interviews with German officers, photos and newspaper reports of the day in English and German (28.00)

REEL II
gvs Scapa Flow (0.22) c/u model of German High Seas Fleet when Admiral Reuter returned to it, unguarded by British Navy (0.53) photograph of American Secretary of State Daniels and further shots of models (2.15) interview (2.52) present day gvs, Scapa Flow (3.34) shot of Stromness, reminiscences by German officers and those Orcadians present on a school trip arranged on the day the fleet was scuttled (including James Robertson) (12.55) view of graveyard at Orfa (?) on mainland Orkney (13.15) interviews talking of armed sailors and sounds of machine gun fire (14.41) c/u German gravestones (15.02) interview with woman, on school trip at the time (15.23) piers in Stromness and further interview (16.19) newspapers of the day and archive film (17.41) interview with social historian, Dr. Barbara Marshall about her study of provincial Germany during this period, and the enthusiastic reaction to the scuttling (19.19) present day ceremony, where German survivors and Admiral Reuter's family remember Scapa Flow (20.44) aerial view Scapa Flow (20.54) ecs (23.48)