ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: RMY 148-48
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Sunderland I of RAAF 10 Squadron in flight. (33 ft) II. RAF officer reads newspaper. (14 ft) III. Churchill with Portal and Sinclair inspect a Stirling and a Halifax I on visit to Northolt on 21 July 1941. Moore-Brabazon and Harry Hopkins in background. (32 ft) IV. Lord Halifax looks at a bombed house while on a tour to inspect blitz damage. (90 ft) V. People emerge from a visit to an Air Raid Shelter in a summer park. (82 ft) VI. Girls in dungarees pass time outside country house. (16 ft) VII. Girls and men at work on fuselage. (95 ft) VIII. Sinclair steps out of a car in Whitehall (outside Air Ministry ?). (15 ft) IX. Harry Hopkins and Churchill inspect Polish members of the RAF on visit to Northolt on 21 July 1941. (22 ft) X. Stirling I of 7 Squadron at Northolt, probably on 21 July 1941. (28 ft) XI. Lord Halifax and wife (?) walk along road during tour to inspect blitz damage and see bomb crater in park. Sign outside Bendicks Chocolates shop reads "Bombed but not beaten". Barrage balloons and planes overhead. (186 ft) XII. Sunderland I of RAAF 10 Squadron in flight over rocky island. (31 ft) XIII. Blitz damage in suburban mock-Tudor area. Wintry weather. (97 ft) XIV. Portal, Sinclair, Harry Hopkins, Churchill and Moore-Brabazon at Northolt on 21 July 1941. (46 ft) XV. Record of Flying Time sheet at 11 Flying School Intermediate Training Squadron is brought up to date. (33 ft) XVI. Sunderland's float during take-off. (18 ft) XVII. Religious service on RAF airfield. (51 ft) XVIII. Churchill beside Stirling I of 7 Squadron at Northolt on 21 July 1941, with Sinclair, Portal and Harry Hopkins. (8 ft) XIX. George VI emerges from the Air Ministry. (26 ft) XX. Duchess of Gloucester in uniform of Air Commodore continues tour of air station where WAAFs receive instruction in barrage balloons. (96 ft)
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: RMY 148-48
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1941
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person) George VI, King (person) Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (person) Henry, Prince (Duke of Gloucester) (person) Hopkins, Harry L (person) Moore-Brabazon, John Theodore Cuthbert (person) Sinclair, Archibald Henry Macdonald (person) Portal, Charles Frederick Algernon (person) Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 7 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Air Force (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Polish personnel (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Flying School Intermediate Training Sqdn (regiment/service) Royal Australian Air Force, 10 Squadron (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - balloon: barrage balloon (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Handley Page Halifax (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Short Stirling (object name) aircraft, British - seaplane: Short Sunderland & [Australian] (object name) destruction, British military - area: bomb (object name) industry, British - aircraft (object name) recreation, British air - casual (object name) religion, Christianity - military, British: service on airfield (object name) society, British - precautionary: air raid shelter (object name) GB, England & Northolt, Middx <RAF Station> (geography) GB, England & London, WC <Air Ministry> (geography) GB, England & London, WC <King Charles Street> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1037 ft; Running time: 12 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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