NAVAL FIRE FIGHTING [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: NAVAL FIRE FIGHTING [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 543
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  • Summary: Demonstrations at a Royal Navy shore station.
  • Description: (1) An audience of ratings dressed in oilskins watch as a small fire is doused with water from a hose. (2) On a mock deck-house a team sprays foam over fire. (3) Man in protective asbestos suit passes safely along a walkway which is enveloped in flames. MS as man suits up. (4) LA.MS as man on deck-house dons respirator. (5) Sub-lieutenant RNVR lectures his men on an attachment which adds foam constituent to water flow. The team march past the camera wearing respirators.
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  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1943
  • Production Country: GB
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 381 ft
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