Metadata
- Title: SEQUENCES FOR PRODUCTION 'X' [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: ACB 108
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- Summary:
- Description: A truck (RE road repairs) passes down a street, with bombed buildings on either side. It arrives at a busy road junction where there is a traffic jam involving American Trucks, despatch riders, large freight trucks etc. A policeman attempts to regulate the traffic flow; on a nearby pole there is a notice reading "Gripper's Cross", "Roundabout", "Keep right/Moving". Various 'lanes' move forward in turn. Another road sign reads "Roundabout: Banville, Grépan, Creully", with a notice supplying the information "You are at map reference 905 811".
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1944-08-06
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Gaumont British News (Production company) Challis, Christopher George (Production individual)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: AP.A (regiment/service)
- Keywords: operations, Allied military - movement: road (object name) operations, Allied military - preparation (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: 382 ft; Running time: 4 mins
- Notes: Production: material was shot by Gaumont British cameramen, but processed by RAF laboratories. Remarks: parts of this used for THE GEN special on the Normandy landings, which suggests that 'Production X' had been abandoned by then - if ACB 108 was originally for 'Production X'. (For details of Production X, see remarks to ACA 26.) Technical: print of ACB 108 is in a can comprising ACB 108-111 (total length 859 ft).
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