Title:COL DU LAUTARET (corrected ledger title) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:COI 83
Other titles:LAUTARET PASS [Translation]
Summary: Wooden tunnels constructed by French engineers in a mountain pass (Col du Lautaret in the Alps) to keep open a passage through the snow.
Description: The film includes shots of the mountain landscape, with wooden poles (marking the route ?), the raising of a rather ragged French flag, men setting out on skis etc, but most of the footage shows a mechanical snow fan-plough blasting snow aside, and the completed tunnels (entrances bear names "Roche Noire", "La Marionnaise" and "Roche Fourniere"), mainly from the outside. Closing shot of men shovelling snow.
Alternative Title:LAUTARET PASS [Translation]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:COI 83
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:1939-1945
Production Date:1940
Production Country: France
Production Details:
Personalities, Units and Organisations: French Army, [mountain troops] (regiment/service)
Keywords: engineering, military, French: tunnelling under snow (object name)
transport, French - snow: snowplough, fan (object name)
Col du Lautaret, Hautes-Alpes, France (geography)
snow (concept)
