RAF STORES DUMP (INCLUDING PARACHUTES, ROCKETS ETC) [Allocated Title]

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Metadata
  • Title: RAF STORES DUMP (INCLUDING PARACHUTES, ROCKETS ETC) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 39
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Men cram a parachute into a small pack - film of a pile of these packs near some bushes; airmen have a bath, while others swim off the beach (convoy ships in the background), one airman is about to undress for a swim, but sees the camera coming. Shots of rockets, of men loading rocket (explosive) heads onto a truck, and of men loading boxes (containing rocket motor mechanisms) onto another truck. An airman counts the remaining boxes, while another checks the number of rockets piled up nearby.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-06-29
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Hicks (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: equipment, British air - personal: parachute (object name) operations, British air - routine (object name) operations, British air - salvage: parachutes (object name) recreation, British air - casual: bathing (object name) supplies, British, storage [FA] - munitions (object name) weapons, British - rocket (object name) Normandy, France (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: 198 ft; Running time: 2 mins
  • Notes: Summary: according to dopesheet, parachutes are salvaged from advanced positions after use for supply-drops. Also, the 'first opportunity' since D-Day for bathing. Technical: print is part of a can comprising ACB 39 and 41. Fine grain is also part of a can comprising ACB 39 and 41 (total length 458 ft). ACB 39 SP is 198 ft. The daily progress report marked ACB 40 is in fact ACB 39.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 39

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