Landships II

Runflat · Lieutenant-Colonel

Development of the Tank - film

James H · Legend

Goodness me. Some stuff there that I have never, ever seen before. Intriguing shots of Little Willie.

Michael Taylor · Lieutenant-Colonel

Intending to give it a quick glance and come back to it later, I seem to have watched the entire film! Excellent! smile

Gwyn Evans · Legend

Found it myself a few days ago and meant to mention it here but got distracted, so I'm glad Runflat has. So many times during the film I thought, "I've seen this clip before" only for there to be much more of that clip than I had ever seen anywhere. Well worth watching, and more than once.

Gwyn

tanks3 · Major

Is it possible to download and keep a copy of this video? If so can someone explain (in very simple terms) what you need to do? Or can you buy a copy from AWM? I found it fascinating and would love a copy

Tanks3

Runflat · Lieutenant-Colonel

I'm glad you guys like it. I found the RE Inglis Assult Bridge being pushed on its idler tracks particularly fascinating.

T3, it does look like you can buy a copy - there's an order form just beyond top right of the preview screen.

Runflat · Lieutenant-Colonel

Oh, no sooner do I say the above that I see the IWM have a full film of the bridging trials (though the footage is more than a tad grainy): www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/1060000186

CharlieC · Legend

tanks3 wrote:
Is it possible to download and keep a copy of this video? If so can someone explain (in very simple terms) what you need to do? Or can you buy a copy from AWM? I found it fascinating and would love a copy

Tanks3

It certainly is possible to download a copy of the video. Below the video player frame on the AWM page are some information items. One of these

is a "download" link - just right click the link and "save link as". You'll eventually download a 118 Mb .mp4 file. This can be played in most of the popular

video players such as VLC, DivX, etc. I don't know if Windows Media Player will handle mp4s (Mac person for some years).

Regards,

Charlie

Rectalgia · Legend

Windows Media Player should handle it (currently supported OS only, anything AFTER Win XP, currently), if not, update the codec - www.microsoft.com/en-au/download/details.aspx (which infers XP is OK, but it's not).