FIREFLY [Main Title]

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  • Title: FIREFLY [Main Title]
  • Film Number: DRA 514
  • Other titles: AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION: FIREFLY [Alternative Title]
  • Summary: How to recognise the Fairey Firefly Navy fighter.
  • Description: Plane is shown in flight over land and landing (slow motion) on a carrier. Superimposed diagrams on frozen frames of the plan in flight highlight its salient features. Another view of a carrier landing, within sight of the coast, by a Firefly I, serial Z 1828, precedes a final summary of the plane's distinctive features.
  • Alternative Title: AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION: FIREFLY [Alternative Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: DRA 514
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-01
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Air Ministry (Production sponsor) Directorate of Army Kinematography (Production sponsor) Admiralty (Production sponsor) Army Kinematograph Service (Production company)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 555 ft; Running time: 6 mins
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