AIR FORMATION SIGNALS [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: AIR FORMATION SIGNALS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 120
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  • Summary:
  • Description: A Signalman adjusts telephone wires, and joins up a bunch with pliers: various shots of this, and of him fitting jack plugs. A man watches over a generator, situated in a barn, he adjusts the pressure and checks valves.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-11
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Challis, Christopher George (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Corps of Signals (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: communications, British military - wire (object name) 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: 100 ft; Running time: 1 min
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  • Notes: Summary: see remarks to ACB 98. Technical: fine grain is part of a can comprising ACB 117-120 (total length 1267 ft). Print is also part of a can ACB 117-120 and is 95 ft.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 120

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