MULBERRY [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MULBERRY [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 131
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: Film, taken from a fast moving camera craft, of trawlers, launches, barrage balloons, the harbour, LSTs, and of factory chimneys in the background. General shots - taken from a craft travelling more slowly - of balloons against a clear sky, of ships in dock (with derricks in background), LSTs and of the freighter Actinia.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-17
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Challis, Christopher George (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: engineering, military, British - Mulberry (object name) ships, British auxiliary - supply: Actinia (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: 195 ft; Running time: 2 mins
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  • Notes: Summary: see remarks to ACB 84. Technical: print is part of a can marked ACB 130-136, which in fact comprises ACB 130, 131 and 136 only (total length 485 ft). No prints of 132, 133, 134 or 135 are held. No print or fine grain or first few scenes mentioned on dopesheet. Negative is 463 ft.
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    ACB 131

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