OPPORTUNITY 1 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: OPPORTUNITY 1 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: COI 753
  • Other titles: ARMY CAREERS INFORMATION OFFICE TRAILERS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Army recruiting advertisement.
  • Description: Mike Bourne of the Royal Tank Regiment is seen boarding a Chieftain tank. MS of tank on the move is progressively obscured by split screen effects illustrating Mike's other activities - sailing, learning to drive, skiing, buying a car, etc. Everyone gets the same sort of opportunities in the Army. "Will you have done as much by the time you're twenty?" Closing sequence shows three Chieftains advancing in echelon towards camera, turrets at 9 o'clock - they fire blanks.
  • Alternative Title: ARMY CAREERS INFORMATION OFFICE TRAILERS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: COI 753
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (COI 753)
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1970
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Parris, Clifford (Production individual) Townsend, Ray (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bourne, Mike (person) British Army, Royal Tank Regiment (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: armour, British - tank: Chieftain (object name) recruitment, British (object name) GB, England (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 86 ft; Running time: 1 min
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