SPECIAL DESPATCH [Main Title]

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  • Title: SPECIAL DESPATCH [Main Title]
  • Film Number: UKY 374
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  • Summary: A fictional 'day in the life' of a Royal Corps of Signals Despatch rider.
  • Description: After introducing himself to the camera, he is seen receiving orders at 6.00 am in London to get an urgent message to a Brigadier before he embarks on a destroyer near Glasgow at 6.00 the same evening: he is given authority to break speed limits if he has to, but is asked not to if possible. Film follows him through various incidents - challenged by a sentry on a bridge with anti-tank obstacles near London - detour round a street closed because of unexploded bomb (asks a postwoman the way) - requisitions petrol from an army lorry - lunch in a village south of Carlisle - asks a boy the way in Gretna - has a puncture - asks policeman the way in Glasgow - gets to the waiting Naval cutter just before the Brigadier ("I needn't have hurried after all").
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: UKY 374
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Film: IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1941-11-1941-11
  • Production Country:GB
  • Production Details:War Office (Production sponsor) Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Army Film Unit (Production Company) Stewart, Hugh (Production individual) Carrick, Edward (Production individual) Addinsell, Richard (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics:Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details:Footage: 704 ft; Running time: 8 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    UKY 374

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