PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MUSTANGS [Allocated Title]

Created by filmcom…@iwm.org.uk
Metadata

  • Title: PHOTOGRAPHIC RECONNAISSANCE MUSTANGS [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 150
  • Other titles:
  • Summary:
  • Description: A board, marked 'A.P.I.S', with an arrow to the right; an airman cycles by, past the board, and past some cars, with some papers in his hand; truck in background, Photo Office tent on right of frame; airman cyclist arrives at tent, gives papers to man inside, and cycles off.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-08-25
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Hodges, Ken (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: communications, British air - message: bicycle messenger (object name) aircraft, United States - light military: North American P-51 Mustang photoreconnaissance (object name) operations, British air - routine (object name) transport, British military - 2/3 wheel: bicycle (object name) GB, England (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: 63 ft; Running time: 1 min
  • Notes: Technical: retake of ACB 138 (of which no print held). This was originally to have included footage of fitting an F-24 camera into Mustang - but footage 'destroyed in lab'. Print is part of a can comprising ACB 149-151 (total length 495 ft). Total length of 149 and 150 (the ones covered by File no 1 on ACB) 349 ft. End of ACB 150 is damaged and very sticky. See also ACB 148.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ACB 150

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:
Related Records