ANTI-INVASION PRACTICE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ANTI-INVASION PRACTICE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 124
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Shoeburyness, Essex. Demonstration by the Petroleum Welfare Board of the anti-invasion "fougasse", a method of projecting and infusing burning oil on to and into water from a "crocodile" truck with an electrical or chemical igniter or jet. The demonstration is carried out in a dyke three yards wide by 200 feet long.
  • Description:
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: AYY 124
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1941-05-26
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Tennyson d'Eyncourt, Walter (Captain) (Production individual) Lawson (Sergeant) (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: 445 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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