OBANOKORO TRIALS 52-55, NIGERIA [Allocated Title]

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Object description

400-687 I. Recoilless gun firing strike and cloud passing over sampling layout. Recoilless gun firing strike and cloud passing over sampling layout. Crater formed by round from Recoilless Gun: Gun firing: Decontamination of crater: Gun firing: Crater: field guns with crews: Loading Recoilless gun aiming, firing: Crater: Sampling at crater: Bubblers on layout.

Object description

0-400 H. Building Operations: Living Quarters: Vehicles: Field Guns: General views of living quarters and laboratory: Vehicles moving to trial site: Canoes on river: Natives canoeing: River launch: Carpenters shop: New building: Mess interior: native shacks: Officers sleeping quarters: Main Street: Market: Outing for native personnel.

Object description

687-1087 J. General views of trials site: Sampling Arc: Successive bursting of a number of chemical filled shell: cloud passing over layout. retrieval of samples from layout and handling prior to analysis: Removal of animals from layout. General views in laboratory; chemists at work. Physiologists. New Building in progress.

Object description

1087-1487 K. Recoilless gun firing: Crater: Burst: Contaminated ground: Guns in position: Loading: Firing: Prog. 8/2/54: Burst cloud travel: Flank position: Shell craters: Chemical Lab: Prog. 28.1.54: Recoilless gun: Prog. C6 29.1.54: Rec. Gun: Physical check ups: pay parade: Prog. D5 9.2.54. Rec. gun: Prog. E2 10.2.54: Multiple shoot burst and cloud travel: surgery for natives: Programme I 6.1.54. Recoilless gun. Programme I 7.1.54 Recoilless gun.

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Physical description

16mm

Object Details

Category: Film
Related period: 1945-1989 (content)
Creator: Porton Down (Production Company)
Production date: 1953, 1954, 1955
Place made: GB
Dimensions: whole: Number Of Items/reels/tapes 4
Catalogue number: DED 45

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