FRONT LINE AIRFIELD [Allocated Title]

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Metadata
  • Title: FRONT LINE AIRFIELD [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 146
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: Four Typhoons fly in formation and peel off; brief fragment of Typhoons flying from left to right. (See Notes.)
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-26
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Challis, Christopher George (Production individual) Eades (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Typhoon (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: 21 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • Notes: Summary: see remarks to ACB 25. Technical: print is part of a can comprising ACB 145-147 (total length 385 ft). ACB 146 is very cut about. Fine grain is longer (by 361 ft) and contains extra footage of: 4 Typhoons flying in formation (including close-ups); peeling off and flying low over the coast; flying right to left and right against very white clouds. However, on fine grain nearly 20 ft of blank footage.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 146

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