BENGHAZI HARBOUR [Allocated Title]

Title: BENGHAZI HARBOUR [Allocated Title]
Film Number: AYY 297-2
Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Royal Engineers repairing a wall damaged by the enemy at Benghazi harbour.
Description: The section at work using three captured cement mixers. Concrete comes down a chute to the base of the hole. A Royal Engineer. Black labourers carrying stones to the hole. Petrol in 50 gallon drums is unloaded from a lighter onto a lorry at the dockside.
Featured Period: 1939-1945
Production Date: 1942-12-15
Production Country: GB
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Jordan, William 'Billy'1918-03-272005 (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
Keywords: Benghazi, Libya (geography) Western Desert 1940-1943, 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 (ca); Running time: 3 mins
Notes: Technical: all three parts of AYY 297 are held on the same reel.
Link to IWM Collections page:
AYY 297-2
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