ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS - FRANCE [Main Title]

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  • Title: ANTI-AIRCRAFT GUNS - FRANCE [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 298
  • Other titles: THE DESTRUCTION OF A FOKKER (offcuts and mixed material) [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: I. British instructional film in techniques of anti-aircraft fire using the lorry-mounted 13-pounder gun, Western Front, 1916-1918. II. A brief sequence of a field gun, possibly an 18-pounder rigged for high-angle fire, mounted on a firing platform in some wooded hills, filmed from the front. The crew may not be British. Perhaps Salonika Front before 1918.
  • Description: Two gunners use a rangefinder and a telescope to mark on a ranging board the correct fuse settings for anti-aircraft fire. A battery of two 13-pounders (probably Mark IXs) on Vauxhall Mark IV lorry mounts are driven along a narrow road in flat terrain. They halt, and the crews set up fire control and deploy the guns. The fire control group uses a large rangefinder, a small telescope and an angle meter. The crew ceases fire, packs up the guns and drives off. Back at the camp, a sergeant marks up numbers on the ranging board assisted by an officer, who watches for errors.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 298)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Buckstone, Walter A (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Field Artillery (regiment/service) British Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: weapons, British - gun [AA]: 13-pounder (object name) combat [simulated], British - anti-aircraft (object name) equipment, British military - fire control: anti-aircraft (object name) weapons, British - gun: 18-pounder field gun (?) (object name) combat, British - artillery bombardment (object name) 01/3(4-15) (event) 01/3(497.3) (?) (event) France (geography) Belgium (geography) Greece & Salonika, Macedonia (?) (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 205 ft; Running time: 4 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Title: this is taken from the shotsheet Cameraman: the store ledger gives the cameraman as Buckstone, but parts of this film are taken from films made over a year before he went to the Western Front Summary: see also IWM 470
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 298

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    IWM 470 (THE DESTRUCTION OF A FOKKER : our mobile anti-aircraft guns in action [Main Title])
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