TRANSPORT: ’Mauretania’ Leaves for Maiden Voyage (1939)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit Mauretania leaves on Maiden voyage. Full Description: Liverpool, England: Gen. view Mauretania up River Mersey. CU “Cammell Laird“ name plate. Pan up Cunard Building to landing stage. Gen. view crowd & Mauretania. Long view Mauretania along quayside. CU notice “Passengers this Way“. Pan, CU & long views of passengers boarding Mauretania. 7 quick scenes of luggage arriving. Semi view & CU blocks of silver. Long view crowd and Mauretania. Semi view Capt. Brown walks from control room. CU syren on Mauretania. Semi view gangway door closing. CU Capt. shouting thru’ megaphone. Semi view & CU men untying hawsers. Semi view pan sailors on deck haul up hawsers. Gen. view Mauretania leaving. Pan from people on quayside to Mauretania leaving. Semi view people on board . Semi view people at quayside waving. Semi view people on