HIJACK [Main Title]

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  • Title: HIJACK [Main Title]
  • Film Number: COI 885
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: Airport security systems.
  • Description: Film shows the departure lounge at Heathrow Airport. A metal detector is demonstrated, with an explanation of how it reveals hidden objects.
  • Alternative Title:
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: COI 885
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (COI 885)
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1970
  • Production Country: GB
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  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: equipment, British air civil - surveillance: airport metal detector (object name) operations, British air civil - search (object name) GB, England & Heathrow, Middx <Heathrow Airport> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: Music and Sound Effects only Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 884 ft; Running time: 2 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    COI 885

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