BALLOON SITE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: BALLOON SITE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 66
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: Film of balloon control cage (on a truck), and of airmen inside; panning shot of site, with emphasis on trucks carrying gas cylinders; film of balloons in the air (dark, then light quality footage) and of the site - rows of trucks carrying equipment; several panning shots from site to balloon barrage and back again; film of activity in and around the control cage; pan from barrage to wind vane and anemometer.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-07-16
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Baker, L A C (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - balloon: barrage balloon (object name) equipment, British air - environmental: anemometer (object name) operations, British air - preparation: barrage balloon (object name) GB, England (?) (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: 505 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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  • Notes: Remarks: most of the balloon shots are filmed from too far away to be of much use. See remarks to ACB 24. Technical: print is part of a can comprising ACB 66 and 67 (total length 886 ft).
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 66

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