PEGASUS BRIDGE [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: PEGASUS BRIDGE [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ACB 86
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  • Summary:
  • Description: Film of two wrecked gliders (Horsas) - one with no nose, the other with twisted wings - is followed by a sequence in which a man walks up to four wooden crosses nearby. Close-up of a glider, which has crushed near a farm gate. Cows graze under the wing of a crashed Horsa. Bénouville area: a sign by the roadside reads "Pegasus Bridge" and shows a flying horse - the bridge is in the background. Film of a stone cross ("Killed in action, 1697310 - Campbell. Born and Died a great fighter. His Comrades.") which is near the four wooden crosses. Trucks pass in the foreground. Side views of the bridge, and of trucks driven over it: "Pegasus" sign on the other end of the bridge. More film of crashed gliders (at 321 ft, see notes) particularly of a dismantled Horsa, lying on its side. A man looks into the Horsa's front hatch (the front half has been detached, intact). Various shots of wrecked gliders - damaged tailplanes, wings, and of gliders 'broken' in the centre, intact.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1944-07-28
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production company) Hodges, Ken (Production individual) Mackinnon (Sergeant) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - glider: Airspeed Horsa & [wrecked] (object name) casualties, British graves - formal (object name) Pegasus Bridge, Calvados, France (geography) Ouistreham, Calvados, France (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: 617 ft; Running time: 6 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Notes: Summary: for details of Production X, see remarks to ACA 26. Technical: bad quality, blotchy film for second half of the can. At 321 ft, a note is held up to the camera. "This shot for Production X. Please seperate (sic) Baylis/Mackinnon". See also ACB 102. Fine grain version (622 ft) is better quality for later glider footage.
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