Description
Object description
II. Film of a battery of 8 Oerlikon AA guns, with gun crews standing behind them, facing towards the sea. Two ATS girls look through a target predictor, while an observer stands beside them, holding binoculars; ATS girls 'fix' their berets in preparation for a shot of them sprinting to the gun site; one of them looks through a long telescope, while another notes the elevation of the target; an ATS girl speaks into a hand microphone. Camera pans up to the sky; aircraft seen in the distance; an Oerlikon gun is fired, while the gun crew (of 3 men) stands nearby; a V1 is seen travelling through heavy flak; close-up of an Oerlikon magazine being replaced.
Object description
I. Film of tracers and target indicators against a night sky; countryside visible, in silhouette, below; film of flying bomb passing overhead from right to left; more night footage of tracers, also of an explosion in the sky; daylight film of a magazine being fitted to a Hispano 20mm cannon, and of the few rounds being fired - panning shot, along the barrel towards the sky and the coast of France; shot of an explosion as the shell hits the sea, film (from various angles) of the site commander, giving the order to fire; silhouette of AA gun traversing, and firing, night footage of V1 passing over, and of shells bursting around. The V1 is 'downed' over the sea.
Full description
I. Film of tracers and target indicators against a night sky; countryside visible, in silhouette, below; film of flying bomb passing overhead from right to left; more night footage of tracers, also of an explosion in the sky; daylight film of a magazine being fitted to a Hispano 20mm cannon, and of the few rounds being fired - panning shot, along the barrel towards the sky and the coast of France; shot of an explosion as the shell hits the sea, film (from various angles) of the site commander, giving the order to fire; silhouette of AA gun traversing, and firing, night footage of V1 passing over, and of shells bursting around. The V1 is 'downed' over the sea.
Full description
II. Film of a battery of 8 Oerlikon AA guns, with gun crews standing behind them, facing towards the sea. Two ATS girls look through a target predictor, while an observer stands beside them, holding binoculars; ATS girls 'fix' their berets in preparation for a shot of them sprinting to the gun site; one of them looks through a long telescope, while another notes the elevation of the target; an ATS girl speaks into a hand microphone. Camera pans up to the sky; aircraft seen in the distance; an Oerlikon gun is fired, while the gun crew (of 3 men) stands nearby; a V1 is seen travelling through heavy flak; close-up of an Oerlikon magazine being replaced.
Physical description
35mm
