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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).
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)