ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]
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- Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: RMY 148-43
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- Summary:
- Description: I. RAF mechanics service Blenheim (?). (26 ft) II. RAF instructor trains pilot in Oxford I. (55 ft) III. Men do PT outside barracks in summer. (12 ft) IV. RAF Flying Fortress takes off in summer. (16 ft) V. Girls work inside plane fuselage. (21 ft) VI. Instruction inside Oxford I continues. (27 ft) VII. Sunderland I of RAAF 10 Squadron in flight,. (25 ft) VIII. Messerschmitt Bf 109E (?) disappears over hill. (4 ft) IX. View of Folkestone harbour and country ablaze in summer. (29 ft) X. Classroom instruction for RAF sergeants in geometry of interception and handling of cartridge magazines. (185 ft) XI. RAF pilot has parachute harness fitted. (91 ft) XII. Wellington of RAF (Polish) Squadron 301, 304 or 305 has twenty-fourth mission painted on fuselage. (23 ft) XIII. Air Vice Marshal inspects Polish members of the RAF on airfield in summer. (25 ft) XIV. Harry Hopkins, Moore-Brabazon, Sinclair, Churchill and General Chaney on visit to Northolt on 21 July 1941. (35 ft) XV. RAF recruits march past a barracks in summer. (76 ft) XVI. Soldiers carry stretcher case out of station. (10 ft) XVII. Instruction inside Oxford I continues. (19 ft) XVIII. Close-ups of seven pilots, two of whom are Indians, probably pilots in RAF Air Transport Auxiliary. Anson I behind. (97 ft) XIX. Churchill walks ahead of Clement Attlee and wife past Stirling I at Northolt on 21 July 1941. Churchill and Harry Hopkins then stand with Portal and Sinclair and watch tail gunner elevate guns. (120 ft) XX. ATA pilots of item XVIII climb into an Anson I with maps. (94 ft)
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- Colour: B&W
- Digitised: Yes
- Object_Number: RMY 148-43
- 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: Attlee, Clement Richard (person) Chaney, James Eugene (person) Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person) Hopkins, Harry L (person) Moore-Brabazon, John Theodore Cuthbert (person) Portal, Charles Frederick Algernon (person) Sinclair, Archibald Henry Macdonald (person) Gloucester, Alice (Duchess) (person) British Army (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Air Transport Auxiliary (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Air Force (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Polish personnel (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, recruits (regiment/service) Royal Australian Air Force, 10 Squadron (regiment/service)
- Keywords: aircraft, British - balloon: barrage balloon (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Avro Anson (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Bristol Blenheim (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Short Stirling (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Vickers Wellington (object name) aircraft, British - light military: Airspeed Oxford (object name) aircraft, British - seaplane: Short Sunderland & [Australian] (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Messerschmitt Bf 109 E (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress & [British] (object name) equipment, British air - personal: parachute (object name) medical, British military - movement: stretcher (object name) operations, British air - routine (object name) operations, British air - maintenance (object name) training, British air (object name) GB, England & Northolt, Middx <RAF Station> (geography) Folkestone, Kent, England, UK (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: 1099 ft; Running time: 13 mins
- HD Media:Yes
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