RESULTS OF BOMBING RAID ON MAY-SUR-ORNE (7th AUGUST 1944) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: RESULTS OF BOMBING RAID ON MAY-SUR-ORNE (7th AUGUST 1944) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 112
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Shots of a church, with ruined steeple; two houses, with windows blown out and roofs damaged; rubble; skeleton frame of a house (two angles); ruined wall - panning to 'Café' sign and shutters; interior of bombed out church (beams and frames, no roof) - panning up to the sky; church again (various angles), and altar, stained glass windows etc; still burning building; blackened walls, three soldiers walking among ruins of row of houses; empty window frames.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-09
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Shearman (Squadron Leader) (Production individual) Baker, L A C (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations:
  • Keywords: buildings, French - religious: church & [wrecked] (object name) destruction, French military - aimed: bomb (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: 475 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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  • Notes: Remarks: useful, atmospheric footage (although the 'progress report' is by no means clear about whether all this devastation is the result of bombing raid). Technical: fine grain is part of a can comprising ACB 112-115 (total length 880 ft). No print.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 112

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