TEAM POLAR 2000 (HQ LAND COMMAND TAPE) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: TEAM POLAR 2000 (HQ LAND COMMAND TAPE) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFA 2575
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  • Summary: Land Command footage of the Team Polar 2000 expedition, the attempt by two Royal Marine commandos, Corporal Alan Chambers and Marine Charlie Paton, to reach the geographical North Pole without support.
  • Description: Shots of the Team Polar members pulling their sledges across the ice (probably during the training sessions at Resolute Bay, North West Territories, Canada. Setting up tents: inside, they cook a meal on a portable stove. General views of tents. Discussion of watch lent by Breitling which contains an emergency satellite navigation beacon. More views of walkers, including shot of them posing with the Union flag in front of sled. Individual interviews with Alan Chambers and Charlie Paton (beards and eyelashes encrusted with ice) describing their experiences (possibly after the successful Polar attempt): Alan reports that it's been "a long hard slog".
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  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: BFA 2575
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (BFA 2575)
  • Featured Period: 1990-2000
  • Production Date: 2000
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: British Army (Production sponsor) Headquarters Land Command Mobile News Team (Production company)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: Beta-SP Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Tape length: 30; Running time: 19 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BFA 2575

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ADM 6659 (TEAM POLAR 2000 - ROYAL MARINES UNSUPPORTED WALK TO THE NORTH POLE (EDITED HIGHLIGHTS FROM RESOLUTE BAY PREPARATION AREA) [Allocated Title]) ADM 6659X (TEAM POLAR 2000: ROYAL MARINES UNSUPPORTED WALK TO THE NORTH POLE (ORIGINAL FOOTAGE) [Allocated Title]) ADM 6665 (TEAM POLAR 2000: ROYAL MARINES UNSUPPORTED WALK TO THE NORTH POLE, MAY 2000 (SHORT EDIT) [Allocated Title])
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