Alcatraz Gun Battle (1946)

Unused / unissued material - no paperwork - dates unclear or unknown Alcatraz Prison Island, San Francisco Bay, California, United States of America (USA). LS from boat of famous American prison island. LS of building with the word Alcatraz painted on roof. LS of plane flying overhead, pan down to island. Shots of boats floating around Island. Back view of photographers on board boat. MS of prison guards on quay shouting to journalists. MS of reporters. MS of prison guard talking. M/S as Pathe cameraman Frank Vail films the battle. LS of prison building with smoke coming out of one of the windows. Possibly the wing is being stormed. Various shots of Warden Johnson and Prison Chief Bennett after the revolt is over with 2 guards dead and 13 injured. C/U of Deputy Warden Miller with bullet gash wound on his face. Journalists film them. M/S of broken windows and bent bars from the grenades. M/S of the bodies of 3 convicts killed in the shoot out, brought back to the mainland on a boat. M/S of str