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Anti-Air Searchlights at the Rock of Gibraltar, WW2, 1942 (infosec.pub)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago

Searchlights of that sort are pretty focused, so they probably looked pretty close in reality to the photo, though I can't say for sure since I know only a little about WW2 anti-air searchlights.

They definitely would have been moving!