BLOWN ROAD; THE PRICE OF RESISTANCE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: BLOWN ROAD; THE PRICE OF RESISTANCE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AYY 379/1/5
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Royal Engineers and local men repairing the road out of Gabès, blown up by the enemy. A well kept German cemetery at Gabès.
  • Description: 30 March. Men towing trucks out as they become bogged in the mud on the riverbank. Royal Engineers trying to build up rocks on the riverbank. Locals unloading rocks from a truck. A local man carries a rock and lays it in the mud. Close-up of lorry wheels crossing the mud. Running water. A vehicle crossing the causeway. Vehicles coming down the road and crossing the causeway. An engineer throwing a rock into the mud, it is placed in position by another engineer. Wheels passing over rocks with engineers in the foreground. 1 April. A British soldier looking at German graves. Close-up of him kneeling by a grave and reading the inscription. View of the graves.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-03-30
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Morris, R H (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Gabès, Tunisia (geography) Tunisia 1942-1943, North Africa, Second World War (event) North Africa 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 300 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • Notes:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AYY 379/1/5

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