OBANOKORO TRIALS 52-55, NIGERIA
This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: DED 44).
Synopsis
0-400 E. Trials personnel arriving at Port Harcourt Airport: Scenes at airport: Railway: Native Dwellings: Marking out trials area: Recoilless gun being emplaced: Firing shell burst and cloud passage: Second round fired: Loading Recoilless gun and hoisting to firing position: Native flora: Logs in river en route to mill: canoes: Recoilless gun firing: Native market: Firing 25 pounder gun moving to trials site: Firing: Water sports various races. Personnel leaving by air: Native market: Shell burst on layout.
400-800 F. Shell burst over layout cloud passage etc: Canoeing: Swimming sports: Tug of War: Guns in field firing: Transport: Recoilless gun firing burst and cloud passage: Mortar emplacement: Mortar shell bursting: mortar shell crater: Mortar shell burst: approach track to trials site: Shell bursts: Flora: Camp site at sunset: Building Construction: Magazine compound: Ironing in Laundry: Pay parade: Routs (?) at river ferry: River traffic: Colonial Houses: Trials buildings: Native workmen: Village scenes: Port Harcourt Race Course: Airport:
800-1200 G. Sampling layout with sheep: Multiple burst cloud passage: Trials personnel: Sheep in pens: Chemical cloud passing sampling points and animals: undressing, removal of protective clothing (?). CW Spray over animals sheep: Multiple burst cloud passes over sampling area: VIP visitors: Meteorological equipment: Sampling Arc: Sheep tethered on sampling arc. Multiple shell burst passage of cloud over layout.
Notes
Technical Condition: Good
Technical (IWM): reels 45E and 45F are colour, reel 45G is black and white.
Titles
- OBANOKORO TRIALS 52-55, NIGERIA (Allocated)
- Series Title:
- PORTON DOWN TRIALS NON-NITRATE COLLECTION
Technical Data
- Year:
- 1955
- Film Gauge (Format):
- 16mm
- Colour:
- Colour
- Sound:
- Silent
- Footage:
- 1200 ft
Production Credits
- Production Countries:
- GB
- Production company
- Porton Down