RAF COMMERCIAL: TAKE-OFF [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: RAF COMMERCIAL: TAKE-OFF [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: COI 1011
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  • Summary: Recruitment commercial for the Royal Air Force.
  • Description: "To get the breaks in this life, you sometimes have to break away..." Scene of Harrier taking off from woodland and flying, intercut with footage of the "breaks" available in the RAF - model landscape used in flight simulator, engine maintenance, oscilloscope, electronics. Harrier hovers above as caption "Train for a trade in the RAF" is superimposed.
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  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised: No
  • Object_Number: COI 1011
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (COI 1011)
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1974
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Central Office of Information (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Harrier (object name) operations, British air - maintenance (object name) propaganda, British - practical: recruitment, RAF (object name)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 64 ft; Running time: 1 min
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    COI 1011

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