FIRE FIGHT [Main Title]

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  • Title: FIRE FIGHT [Main Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 6935
  • Other titles: MISCELLANEOUS OLD ADMIRALTY BUILDING TAPES [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Dramatised account (narrated by Captain Rod Boswell, OC Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre Royal Marines) detailing the encounter between the Cadre and a section of Argentinean Special Forces at Top Malo House in the Falkland Islands, May 30 1982.
  • Description:
  • Access Conditions:
  • Featured Period: 1976-2000
  • Production Date: 1983
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Navy Public Relations Office (Production sponsor) Roymark (Production company) Baird, Roy (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: U-matic Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 30
  • Notes: Summary: Captain Boswell and nineteen members of the Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre RM were tasked to neutralise the enemy force. In the ensuing firefight ; five Argentineans died and seven were wounded, and the remaining five surrendered. Three Royal Marines were wounded Technical: dubbed from 16mm (original not held by IWM).
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ADM 6935

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    ADM 6926 (ROYAL NAVY PR FILMS TRAILER 1989 [Allocated Title])
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