FRONT LINE AIRFIELD [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: FRONT LINE AIRFIELD [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 136
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: Various shots of a tractor being driven past, and of a soldier driving a bulldozer (no 1629). The bulldozer (with American markings) is filmed from various angles, as is the Corporal driving it. Part of footage showing airfield surface laying.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-18
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Eades (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: AP.A (?) (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: engineering, military, Allied: airfield construction (object name) transport, United States military - engineering: bulldozer (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: 195 ft; Running time: 2 mins
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  • Notes: Summary: see remarks to ACB 25. 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.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 136

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