RAF FIELD AMBULANCE, PREPARING TO MOVE TO FRANCE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: RAF FIELD AMBULANCE, PREPARING TO MOVE TO FRANCE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 29
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: A Princess Mary Sister gets into a Red Cross ambulance; a Hurricane (with D-Day markings) takes off; a hospital truck, and an ambulance arrive - a patient is removed from the ambulance, another patient is carried out of the operating theatre, while an orderly packs surgical instruments, a sister arrives in a jeep, meets a nurse, and walks into a hospital (signposted: RAF Hospital 55) (two takes): the ambulance passes along a road, general panning shot of a row of patients in a ward; a sister and an orderly fold up a hospital bed.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-22
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Maiden, Cecil (Production individual) Baker, L A C (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, RAF Hospital 55 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: medical, British air - hospital (object name) medical, British air - movement (object name) transport, British civilian - ambulance (object name) transport, United States - utility: jeep & [British] (object name) GB, England & Fontwell Park, Sussex <RAF hospital 55> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 321 ft; Running time: 3 mins
  • Notes: Summary: appears to be footage for a new project, which continues in ACB 50, 122, 127. Technical: fine grain version is in a can comprising ACB 29 and 30 (total length 852 ft). ACB 29 SP is 332 ft. Print is also in a can comprising ACB 29 and 30 (total length 677 ft).
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 29

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