SD 50RS ROCKET BOMB TRIALS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: SD 50RS ROCKET BOMB TRIALS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: GWY 1485
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  • Summary: Trial launches of SD 50RS rocket bombs.
  • Description: In these trials, filmed with high speed cameras from various positions, the bombs are launched from a gun platform in a fairly low trajectory. Three launches are shown in long shot, one in close-up. The close-up launch is filmed in reverse.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: GWY 1485
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM-GERMAN Attribution: IWM – GWY 1485
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940
  • Production Country: Germany
  • Production Details: Rheinmetall-Borsig (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: weapons, German air - missile [air-surface]: Rheinmetall-Borsig SD 50RS & [R and D] (object name) Germany & Lebasee (?) (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 118 ft; Running time: 1 min
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    GWY 1485

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