FLYING BOMB MATERIAL [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: FLYING BOMB MATERIAL [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 147
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Two observers - one man, one woman - stand on a flat observation tower: they suddenly rush below. Close-up of the two (woman with binoculars, man with earphones). Various shots of this, from behind and side. The two 'trace' flying bomb on an elaborate charting device, then lift a hatch, and press a button: the man shouts through a microphone; the girl swivels the plotting table, and looks through sight; on the table are marks at various points of the compass ("No 2 Group, Horsham Centre" etc); various shots of the plotting sight being adjusted; film of the results of the button being pressed: a small rocket ignites outside the observation post, giving a flare-trail. Near the hut, a stack of tubes (rockets?) and a truck. General pan around the countryside.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-26
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Coop, Eric W (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Observer Corps (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: equipment, British air - surveillance: plotting sight (object name) defences, British - emplacement: observation tower (object name) intelligence, military, British - surveillance: V1 plotting (object name) Horsham area, Sussex, England, UK (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: 305 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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  • Notes: Summary: according to the Daily Progress Report, the rocket indicator is "not in use now" (ie obsolete when filmed!). See remarks to ACB 24. Technical: print is part of a can comprising ACB 145-147 (total length 385 ft).
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 147

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