HARVEST TIME IN THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD (PART 2) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: HARVEST TIME IN THE NORMANDY BEACH-HEAD (PART 2) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: A70 98-4
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Norman farm-workers gather in a crop of flax in time- honoured fashion, undisturbed by the traffic that brings casualties from the front and supplies to the fighting along the Bayeux-Caen road.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: A70 98-4
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-07-27
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations, War Office (Production sponsor) Army Film and Photographic Unit (Production company) Watkins, R V (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: agriculture, French - arable: harvest (object name) transport, British military - truck: Bedford 3-ton 4x4 QL (object name) transport, United States military - truck: Fordson 15cwt 4x2 (object name) transport, British military - amvulance: Austin K2 3-ton 4x2 ambulance (object name) Normandy, France (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Footage: 99 ft; Running time: 1 min
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    A70 98-4

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