REMOVABLE RUNWAY [Main Title]

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  • Title: REMOVABLE RUNWAY [Main Title]
  • Film Number: COI 965
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  • Summary: The setting up of an artificial runway.
  • Description: Cockpit view, then interior view, of light aircraft landing. Cut to servicemen unpacking a large bundle of tarpaulins. Shots of the sheets being unfolded manually over gravel. Sheets are primed with white substance (adhesive ?), edges are flattened. Long shot of removable runway, now fully deployed. Hercules successfully lands. Light aircraft takes off, passenger aircraft lands; further shot of Hercules. Shot of helicopter landing on oval helipad formed of similar material.
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  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: COI 965
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (COI 965)
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1970
  • Production Country: GB
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  • Keywords: aircraft, United States - transport: Lockheed Hercules & [British] (object name) engineering, military, British: removable runway (object name)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: Sound effects only Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 34 ft; Running time: 1 min
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    COI 965

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