OBSERVING FOR OUR HEAVY GUNS [Main]

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Other title(s): OFFICIAL PICTURES OF THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE - FIFTH SERIES [series]
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Year: 1916
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Runtime: 8 mins
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Description: A kite balloon is positioned by RFC ground staff and ascends over a small village. The view down from the basket and a (faked) close-up of the observer and signaller spotting from the basket. A 60-pounder battery receives the signal and the observer directs its fire. The gun fires several times, and a 6-inch Mk VII gun joins in, "note its tremendous recoil". The balloon is then lowered and the basket touches ground bumpily.
Semi-dramatised account of British aerial spotting techniques for guns on the Western Front, probably at Locre, March 1916.
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Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Royal Air Force, Royal Flying Corps / British Army, Royal Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery / aircraft, British - balloon: observation kite balloon / weapons, British - gun: 60-pounder / weapons, British - gun: 6-inch Mark VII / communications, British air - wire: [+] / combat, British - artillery bombardment / 01/3(4-15).5 / Locre, West Flanders, Belgium
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Collection:
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Provider: Imperial War Museums
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Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
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Production company: British Topical Committee for War Films
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Colour: Black & White
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Sound: Without sound
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Date:
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Related Names
- EFSTRATIADIS OMIROS | Director
- SKLAVOS GIANNIS | Screenplay
- RAFTOPOULOS KOSTAS | Editor
- TRIANTAFYLLOU GIORGOS | Editor
- KITSOS CHRISTOS | sound director
- TZEVELEKOS SOTIRIS | Actor
- TSAKONAS KOSTAS | Actor
- VOGIATZIS GIANNIS | Actor
- LOGOTHETIS ILIAS | Actor
- ILIOPOULOS NTINOS | Actor
- GKIONAKIS GIANNIS | Actor
- KALLOOU CHRISTOS | Actor
- ASIKI VINA | Actor
- VENETI NANA | Actor
- GLYKOU NONI | Actor
- PITSILOS NOTIS | Actor
- TRIKAMINAS ANTONIS | Actor
- TZELVE VANESA | Actor
- TOLOUZIDOU ARETI | Actor
- MELACHROINOUDIS GIANNIS | Actor
- STEFANAKIS KOSTAS | Actor
- PETAS KOSTAS | Actor
- ROMANIDIS THEODOROS | Actor
- PONTIKIS ANTONIS | Actor
- MARKAKIS NIKOS | Actor
- FRAI NIKOS | Actor
- MATHIOPOULOS MIMIS | production director
- MAVROMATI ANNA | Make-up artist
- IOANNIDIS KOSTAS | Assistant director of photography
- BEDLAM | Singer
- KALLOOU CHRISTOS | Singer
- KARANIKAS TASOS | plateau photographer
- ARGYRIS TAKIS | Music composer