PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES (Version 2) [Main Title]

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  • Title: PEEP BEHIND THE SCENES (Version 2) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: BTF 118B
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: Film on the special manufacturing work carried out by Southern Railway workshops for the war effort.
  • Description: Reel 1 (841 ft): The film opens with a visit to the SR cutting rooms where the editor, Basil Sangster, shows the film on a Moviola. Bomb damage scenes. Refitting coaches for hospital trains. Reconditioning a 1914-18 8-inch howitzer. Manufacturing 2-pounder guns and 2-inch rocket launchers. SR Home Guard manning Bofors gun. Supplies to Russia - building sections of railway wagons for assembly at destination. Reel 2 (763 ft): Fitting out mobile workshops for army. Ramp wagons, bridgelayer tanks. Arrival of US locomotives for modification. Building invasion craft etc - assault boats, power boats, landing craft (LCPs etc). Reel 3 (778 ft): Construction and transportation of landing craft (LCMs). Aerial torpedo tail fin manufacture. Entertainments at factory canteen. Bridging pontoons. Reel 4 (663 ft): Glider manufacture (Horsa) - testing wood, making tail units, fitting skin and spars etc.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: BTF 118B
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (BTF 118B)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1946
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Southern Railway Film Unit (Production company) Sangster, Basil (Production individual) Sangster, Basil (Production individual) Arlen, Robert (Production individual) Watkins, David (Production individual) Gamlin, Lionel James1903-04-301967-10-16 (Production cast)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Sangster, Basil (person) British Army, Home Guard (regiment/service) SOUTHERN RAILWAY (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - glider: Airspeed Horsa (object name) industry, British - aircraft: Airspeed Horsa (object name) industry, British - guns (object name) industry, British - ships: invasion craft (object name) journalism and record, British - cameraman: film cutting rooms (object name) operations, British military - maintenance (object name) transport, British civilian - rail (object name) weapons, British - gun: 2-pounder gun (object name) weapons, British - gun: 8-inch howitzer (object name) weapons, British - projector (?): 2-inch rocket launcher (object name) Eastleigh, Hampshire, England, UK (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound
  • Technical Details: Number of items/reels/tapes: 4 Footage: 3045 ft; Running time: 34 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BTF 118B

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