COAST DEFENCES AT SUNDERLAND AND REDCAR [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: COAST DEFENCES AT SUNDERLAND AND REDCAR [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 28-2
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: 6 pounder gun firing from blockhouse. 1/3rd Battery 1st Medium Regiment Royal Artillery at Henley Farm, Brotton, firing 60-pounders from cliff top. Exercises 2/ 6th Lancashire Fusiliers, 59th Division 10th Corps exercising Alert. Barbed wire defences. Troops on foot, on cycles and in Bren carriers rushing to repel attack. Digby aerodrome: Spitfire testing machine guns by firing into sandpit. Loading guns and camera on Spitfire. Spitfires and Blenheims diving at aerodrome.
  • Description:
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: AYY 28-2
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940-07-31
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Rignold, Harry (Lieutenant) (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1600 ft; Running time: 17 mins
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    AYY 28-2

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