AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION - SASEBO (PART 24) (MITSUBISHI F1M) [Main Title]

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  • Title: AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION - SASEBO (PART 24) (MITSUBISHI F1M) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: AMY 757
  • Other titles: MITSUBISHI F1M ("PETE") - AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION [Alternative Title] RECOGNITION OF AIRCRAFT [Series Title]
  • Summary: Second World War aircraft recognition film, showing the Mitsubishi F1M, a Japanese Navy floatplane. Film uses diagrams and models.
  • Description:
  • Access Conditions: Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943-07
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Air Ministry (Production sponsor) Admiralty (Production sponsor) Directorate of Army Kinematography (Production company)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 464 ft; Running time: 5 mins
  • Notes: Summary: caption at the beginning of the film states "Notice: This film was shot in accordance with the latest information available on 2nd July 1942". Title: The design of this aircraft was originally, and erroneously, attributed to Sasebo. "About 180 (were) made at the Navy Arsenal at Sasebo. For a while the Allies... thought the F1M a Sasebo design" - Bill Gunston, The Encyclopedia of the World's Combat Aircraft, p 162.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AMY 757

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