OBANOKORO TRIALS 52-55, NIGERIA

This film is held by the Imperial War Museum (ID: DED 45).

Synopsis

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.

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.

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.

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.

Notes

Technical Condition: Good

Technical (IWM): four reels. One reel (labelled RF 45/9, presumably Porton reference RF 45H) is a mixture of colour/black and white. Identification of these cans is less apparent due to the absence of labels on most of them. Reels one, three and four are suffering from vinegar syndrome and have been segregated at Ickleton.

 

Titles

  • OBANOKORO TRIALS 52-55, NIGERIA (Allocated)
Series Title:
PORTON DOWN TRIALS NON-NITRATE COLLECTION
 

Technical Data

Year:
1955
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm
Colour:
B&W
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
1487 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
GB
Production company
Porton Down