AIR FORMATION SIGNALS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: AIR FORMATION SIGNALS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 98
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Shots of a farmhouse (to be converted into a signals HQ) and of a jeep arriving. An airman (sergeant) is shown phoning (surrounded by cables). The sergeant enters a camouflaged tent (two takes) - close-up of signs reading 'Signal Office', 'Teleprinter Room'. A linesman is shown at work up a telegraph pole (out of focus); close-up of cable being paid out from a large reel; the linesman attaches a safety belt around the top of a telegraph pole - he then joins some wires and fixes them to the pole; more shots of cable being paid out.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: ACB 98
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-03-08
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Hodges, Ken (Production individual) Mackinnon (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service) Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: communications, British military - wire (object name) engineering, military, British: laying of field telegraph (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: 372 ft; Running time: 4 mins
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