FRONT LINE AIRFIELD [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: FRONT LINE AIRFIELD [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 97
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Various shots of Typhoons taxiing and starting up, with tents, trucks and a few trees in the background: these shots are taken from several angles, and all the aircraft are equipped with rockets. Film of rocket shafts, and of explosive heads, placed on the ground nearby.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-03
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Eades (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Typhoon (object name) operations, British air - routine (object name) Caen, Calvados, 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: 248 ft; Running time: 2 mins
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  • Notes: Summary: although 'Daily Progress Report' lists this as 'Front Line Airfield' material, film itself shows footage as sequences for 'Production X'. For 'Front Line Airfield' details, see remarks to ACB 25; for 'Production X' details, see ACA 26. Technical: fine grain version of ACB 97 is in a separate can. Print is part of ACB 97-99, and is 158 ft in length (less takes of Typhoons starting up, and no rocket material).
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 97

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