Title:TRIALS OF ROUGH TERRAIN CRANE, INSTOW, JUNE 1966 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 563
Other titles:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: A heavy duty wheeled mobile crane, intended for use on rough terrain and in water, is trialled. Some shots are preceded by cameramen's slates.
Description: Wading trials off Instow. Close-up of engine being checked. Trials on beach.
"12-6-66 LCM9 Run I RT Crane Instow". Wading trial: crane lifts a crate from a LARC-V amphibious truck and places it on board an LCM(9) Landing craft.
"28-6-66 LCM9 Run II RT Crane Instow". The crane drives onto LCM(9) L700 and is taken to sea. The crane drives off into the shallows. Point-of-view shot from on board DUKW which has an a-frame being used as a crane to lift a crate.
"29-6-66 LCM9 Run III RT Crane Instow". Long shot of DUKW with a-frame crane taking a crate aboard an LCM(9). Further shots show DUKW, rough terrain crane and LARC-V (camerawork is very shaky here).
"30-6-66 LCM9 Run VI RT Crane Instow". Crane loads crates onto L700 (includes some close-ups of the crane's mechanisms).
"29-6-66 LCM9 Run IV RT Crane Instow". Crane loads LARC-V from L700.
"29-6-66 LCM9 Run V RT Crane Instow". Crane loads L700 from LARC-V.
Alternative Title:AMPHIBIOUS TRIALS AND TRAINING UNIT, ROYAL MARINES [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
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Object_Number:BFM 563
Sound:Silent
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Production Date:1966-06-12 1966-06-28 1966-06-29 1966-06-30
