BUILDING A NISSEN HUT [Main Title]

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  • Title: BUILDING A NISSEN HUT [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 125
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  • Summary: A film on the assembly of a Nissen hut, probably 1917.
  • Description: Men of the Royal Engineers, watched by three officers (one of them a colonel with a staff armband) assemble a Nissen hut, which is described as being "cool in summer and warm in winter" and as housing twenty-four men.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1917
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: War Office Cinema Committee (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: buildings, British - military: Nissen hut (object name) engineering, military, British (object name) 01/3(4-15).6 (event) France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 344 ft; Running time: 6 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Remarks: an inadequate film, which fails to explain either the precise method of construction of a Nissen hut, the principles on which it is designed, or the uses to which it can be put.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 125

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