CUTTING MATERIAL [Allocated Title]

Title: CUTTING MATERIAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number: AYY 419/2
Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Various shots in Tunisia.
Description: Close-up from the waist downwards of a soldier wearing shorts, walking along the road towards the camera with large swirls of dust coming up from his feet. Another close-up of the action. Panning shot from a water truck with men filling cans to a 25 pounder of "D" Troop, 89th/23rd Field Regiment with the gun crew standing to. The 25 pounder gun giving three rounds of battery fire with a Churchill tank in the distance. Enemy shell bursts on the ridge on the right flank. Shrapnel shell bursts. A large white smoke cloud, a shell bursts alongside it. Another shell bursts.
Featured Period: 1939-1945
Production Date: 1943-04-29
Production Country: GB
Production Details: War Office Film Unit (Production company) Radford, John H. B. (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery, 23rd Field Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: 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: 100 ft; Running time: 1 min
Notes:
Link to IWM Collections page:
AYY 419/2
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