FIREPOWER DEMONSTRATION NEAR IMPHAL (19/10/1944)
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: ABY 50).
Synopsis
A firepower demonstration near Imphal including mortar and shell fire, smoke screens and bombing by RAF Hawker Hurricanes.
Footage of a firepower demonstration. Hurricane flying over a ridge. Hurricanes dropping 250-lb and 500-lb bombs with 11-second delayed-action fuses. Smoke rising. Hurricane flying across shot. Impacts on the ground. Thickening smoke. Impacts from shelling and trench mortar fire. Low pass by Hurricane. Infantry advancing through smoke. Hurricanes laying smoke screen. Smoke cloud drifiting. Smoke trails dropping vertically from aircraft.
Notes
Dates from slate. Dopesheet dated 14/12/1944.
See also ABY 52.
Titles
- FIREPOWER DEMONSTRATION NEAR IMPHAL (19/10/1944) (Allocated)
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1944
- Running Time:
- 3 minutes
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 35mm
- Colour:
- B&W
- Sound:
- Silent
- Footage:
- 266 ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- Sponsor
- Air Ministry Directorate of Public Relations
- cameraman
- Goozee, S (Sergeant)
- Production company
- Royal Air Force Film Production Unit