Metadata
- Title: AIR FORMATION SIGNALS [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: ACB 99
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- Summary:
- Description: (Continuation of ACB 98.) Panning shot (left to right) of communication cable at ground level, ending in shot of a hedge; a sign, reading 'Command Group', is shown, leaning on a hedge; a man walks through an open gate, leading to 'Air Formation Signals Camp' (close-up of notice). A Linesman stands by a tree, bracing himself with a cable. A man works up a telegraph poles situated near the farmhouse while two others watch below. Close-up of cables being laid in a shrubbery. Another shot of the farmhouse, more film of cables being laid, and of attaching lines to telegraph poles (two men hold bracing cables, while another fixes the lines).
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1944-08-03
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Hodges, Ken (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service) Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
- Keywords: buildings, French - residential: farmhouse (object name) 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: 295 ft; Running time: 3 mins
- Notes: Summary: see remarks to ACB 98. Technical: print is part of a can comprising ACB 97-99 (total length 825 ft).
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