SEQUENCES FOR PRODUCTION 'X' (CONTINUATION OF 'GRIPPERS CROSS' SEQUENCE) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: SEQUENCES FOR PRODUCTION 'X' (CONTINUATION OF 'GRIPPERS CROSS' SEQUENCE) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 115
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Traffic jam at "Gripper's Cross" (cf ACB 108, 109); American trucks move forward slowly; various signs read "half mile Main [arrow]", "Five miles Rear [arrow]", "TAF - 84 Group Rear H.Q.", "Convalescent Depot", "Recovery Vehicles", "RASC Airfreight Reception", B14 Airfield". More signs - in front of a small truck towing artillery piece - "Banville 102 BSA", "Keep Moving", "Keep to the Right", "No Entry", "No overtaking" (this one on a telegraph pole), "C.E.P.", "Star Morefield Elbow Beach, SMEB", "N172 Calvados, La Tuilerie" and, on the side of a building, "Cinzano, Le Meilleur Apéritif".
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: ACB 115
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-08
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Baylis, Peter (Production individual) Challis, Christopher George (Production individual) Hodges, Ken (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service) United States Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: operations, Allied military - movement: road (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: 169 ft; Running time: 2 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 115

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