British army in Eritrea
A man maneuvers a large four-horned airplane detector with its operator wearing a t-shirt and pith helmet; he speaks on a field telephone, runs into a frame building, and many others run to a dusty practice area with another detector / The men firing anti-aircraft guns with native men in fezzes at the cannon's breech / Men at a large crate full of artillery shells / The native men load the shell into the breech, and guns are shot with much smoke; scores of British men move a gun from a beach with a track; the men pull forward dragging large bushes, sweeping the dirt ; a large cannon is brought in and men on a platform look over the sizable new weapon; the natives stand around with the gun crew; it fires and the scene is covered in smoke and dust / A good shot of the shell being loaded in the breech / Note: exact month/day not known





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Editorial #:
1285336634
Collection:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Date created:
January 01, 1935
Upload date:
License type:
Rights-ready
Release info:
Not released.ÌýMore information
Clip length:
00:03:20:03
Location:
Eritrea
Mastered to:
QuickTime 10-bit ProRes 422 (HQ) HD 1920x1080 23.98p
Originally shot on:
35mm B/W Neg
Source:
Sherman Grinberg Library
Object name:
sr004504_01_01
- Anti-Aircraft,
- Gun,
- 1930-1939,
- Accuracy,
- Adult,
- Airplane,
- Ammunition,
- Archival,
- Artillery,
- Beach,
- Black And White,
- British Military,
- Bush,
- Cannon - Artillery,
- Conflict,
- Crate,
- Crew,
- Day,
- Dirt,
- Dragging,
- Dust,
- Eritrea,
- Fez - Hat,
- Film - Moving Image,
- HD Format,
- Helmet,
- Horn of Africa,
- Indigenous Peoples,
- Khaki,
- Loading,
- Men,
- Month,
- New,
- Newsreel,
- Pith,
- Pulling,
- Raw Footage,
- Real Time Video,
- Shooting a Weapon,
- Smoke,
- Smoke Detector,
- Sweeping,
- T-Shirt,
- Talking,
- Telephone,
- Video with Sound,
- War,
- Weapon,