V300 ÜBERWASSER-SCHLEPPVERSUCHE IN DER HAMBURGISCHEN SCHIFFBAU VERSUCHSANSTALT [Main Title]

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  • Title: V300 ÜBERWASSER-SCHLEPPVERSUCHE IN DER HAMBURGISCHEN SCHIFFBAU VERSUCHSANSTALT [Main Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 1527
  • Other titles: SURFACE TOWING TESTS OF THE V300 IN THE HAMBURG SHIPYARD EXPERIMENTAL INSTITUTE [Translation]
  • Summary: Silent film showing a submarine model in water tank tests.
  • Description: The film is in sequences of written technical details, graphs and film of a model submarine in a water tank where conditions of 10 to 16 knot travel are simulated. Several of the technical variations are described in the titles. The tests were made at the Hamburg Shipbuilding Experimental Institute. The film is titled as being secret.
  • Alternative Title: SURFACE TOWING TESTS OF THE V300 IN THE HAMBURG SHIPYARD EXPERIMENTAL INSTITUTE [Translation]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 1527
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 1527
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1941
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: Arbeitsgemeinschaft Krupp-Walter Kiel (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Hamburg Shipbuilding Experimental Institute (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: sciences, German - technology (object name) ships, German naval - submarine: [R and D] (object name) Germany & Hamburg <Hamburg Shipbuilding Experimental Institute> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: German Subtitle language: German
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 400 ft; Running time: 11 mins
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