SEQUENCES FOR PRODUCTION 'X' [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: SEQUENCES FOR PRODUCTION 'X' [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 108
  • Other titles:
  • 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
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  • 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).
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 108

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