SALVAGE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: SALVAGE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 212/1
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Salvage dump on the El Adam road outside Tobruk, Libya, for captured enemy material such as water cans, guns, boots, ammunition, tyres and springs; 1500 tons of material a week are collected.
  • Description: Four men wheeling barrows full of salvaged stores. Tyres are rolled past a notice reading "Don't Tyre Yourself". Tyres being unloaded from a lorry onto a pile. Comedy shot: the Sergeant Major, who is rather short, helps by rolling an outsize tyre, he is assisted by Private "Tiny", an outsize man who is pushing a tiny tyre.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1942-04-16
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Murray, J A C (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: 417 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 212/1

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