VICKERS PISCES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: VICKERS PISCES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: COI 893
  • Other titles: SUBMARINE FOR HIRE [Alternative Title] PISCES [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: The Vickers Pisces miniature submarine, being used during the filming of the feature film "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes".
  • Description: Clapperboard at beginning of film reads "Production: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Test on Monster with Number 6 Fog Filter". Shots of a model of the Loch Ness Monster and of the unloading of the Pisces into the Loch.
  • Alternative Title: SUBMARINE FOR HIRE [Alternative Title] PISCES [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: COI 893
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (COI 893)
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1969
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Central Office of Information (Production sponsor) London Television Service (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: animals, reptiles: Loch Ness Monster (object name) ships, British civilian - submarine: Vickers Pisces (object name) GB, Scotland & Loch Ness, Argyll (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: 75 ft; Running time: 2 mins
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