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Title:RESULTS OF BOMBING RAID ON MAY-SUR-ORNE (7th AUGUST 1944) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ACB 112
Other titles:
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.
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)
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 475 ft; Running time: 5 mins
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.