ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: RMY 148-27
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Winston Churchill with Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair, Air Marshal, US air attaché General Chaney and US special envoy Harry Hopkins (back view) stand near RAF Flying Fortress B-17C at Northolt on 21 July 1941. (66 ft) II. Inside a Coastal Command office a map indicates air bases and positions where enemy craft destroyed, including a U-boat marked up off the Lizard. (55 ft) III. Men clear rubble from blitzed house in summer. (49 ft) IV. Winston Churchill stands smoking cigar on Northolt airfield on 21 July 1941. Stirling of 7 Squadron passes in background. Churchill passes with US civilian and Harry Hopkins. (31 ft) V. RAF men do physical training. (41 ft) VI. Vapour trails overhead. Plane crashes and bursts into flames in summer countryside. (41 ft) VII. Two soldiers guard smouldering plane in summer. (42 ft) VIII. RAF men do physical training. Same occasion as item V. (56 ft) IX. View from wire-protected shore (near Dover ?) of explosion out at sea. Distant view of white cliffs. (40 ft) X. Group of civilians and soldiers look at plane wreckage in small crater in summer countryside. (19 ft) XI. Messerschmitt Bf 109E flies past barrage balloon overhead. (11 ft) XII. Barrage balloons descend in flames. (19 ft) XIII. Cockpit view of Sunderland flying over rocky coast. Aerial view of Sunderland of 210 Squadron (Sunderland Is from June 1938 to April 1941) landing. (89 ft) XIV. "Crashed German Plane Display" features a Messerschmitt Bf 109E with bent propeller viewed by curious locals at Crown Hill. Locals donate to the Spitfire Fund, "Send up our fighters and bring down the Blighters". (183 ft) XV. Men mount aero engine inside hangar. (99 ft) XVI. Sunderland lands. (Sequence upside down.) (24 ft) XVII. Beaufighter flies over airfield in summer. (56 ft) XVIII. Crashed Messerschmitt Bf 109E on display. Same occasion as item XIV. (92 ft) XIX. Boys of the Air Training Corps and young RAF recruits parade in summer. (66 ft) XX. Woman works inside fuselage of plane. (47 ft)
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: RMY 148-27
  • 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: Chaney, James Eugene (person) Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person) Hopkins, Harry L (person) Sinclair, Archibald Henry Macdonald (person) Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 7 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 210 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Air Training Corps (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Short Stirling (object name) aircraft, British - balloon: barrage balloon & [damaged] (object name) aircraft, British - seaplane: Short Sunderland (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Messerschmitt Bf 109 E (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress & [British] (object name) command and control, British air: operations room (object name) demolition, British - clearance (object name) training, British air (object name) operations, British air - maintenance (object name) GB, England & Northolt, Middx <RAF Station> (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: 1127 ft; Running time: 13 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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