AVRO ANSON OPERATING IN INDIA [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: AVRO ANSON OPERATING IN INDIA [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: JFU 163
  • Other titles: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Very short film showing an Avro Anson transport aircraft starting up, taxiing, and in flight, somewhere in India.
  • Description: A ground crewman hand cranks an Avro Anson's port engine. The aircraft taxis. The aircraft overhead. The aircraft on the runway, probably having just landed.
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH ARMY OPERATIONS IN SOUTH EAST ASIA DURING THE SECOND WORLD WAR [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: JFU 163
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Directorate of Public Relations (Production sponsor) SEAC Film Unit (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: India (geography) Burma 1942-1945, Second World War (event) India 1939-1945 (theme) British Army 1939-1945 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 60 ft; Running time: 1 min
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