HMS ILLUSTRIOUS TAKES OVER FALKLANDS PROTECTION FROM HMS INVINCIBLE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: HMS ILLUSTRIOUS TAKES OVER FALKLANDS PROTECTION FROM HMS INVINCIBLE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 4841
  • Other titles: FALKLANDS CONFLICT [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Footage of HMS Invincible filmed from HMS Illustrious as the latter relieves the former on Falklands patrol duties.
  • Description: HMS Invincible is seen from various angles as it first pulls ahead of the camera ship and then as HMS Illustrious passes close alongside. The crew on the upper deck hold out a banner "Welcome back Hermes - Nice paint job" (a reference, one presumes, to the departed HMS Hermes, which left the area at the end of the conflict in need of a repaint). Some other ships are glimpsed briefly.
  • Alternative Title: FALKLANDS CONFLICT [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
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  • Object_Number: ADM 4841
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (ADM 4841)
  • Featured Period: 1990-2000
  • Production Date: 1982-09
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Directorate of Public Relations (Navy) (Production company)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 102 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ADM 4841

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    FAL 16853 (HMS ILLUSTRIOUS BEGINS FALKLANDS PATROL [Allocated Title])
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