GERMAN MINE-LAYING [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: GERMAN MINE-LAYING [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 802
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  • Summary: Unedited film of German personnel laying a magnetic mine on a road outside a village in winter.
  • Description: Personnel in fatigues supervised by naval officers bury the mine. The circuit is tested before a truck with naval number-plates drives over the mine, detonating a pyrotechnic in place of the real charge in order to demonstrate the efficiency of the system.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 802
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 802
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: OKW (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: German Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, German military - mines: laying (object name) weapons, German - mine: magnetic (object name) Germany (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 300 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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    GWY 802

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