Metadata
- Title: RAISING SAILORS [Main Title]
- Film Number: UKY 202
- Other titles:
- Summary: The early training of Royal Navy recruits; the film shows both the education of 'boy sailors' of 15-16 and the basic training of 'hostilities only' recruits (men in their 20s and 30s).
- Description: Film opens with the arrival of HO men at Havant; haircut, medical and dental inspections, kitting out. Then shots of men and boys are intercut showing drill; knot practice; sail training on a miniature cutter; rowing a cutter (HOs); training with the gyro-magnetic compass and in a model wheelhouse; also the galleys, a boys' mess (fancy cutlery arrangements) and a HOs' dormitory (Kit layout for inspection); gunlaying; semaphore, morse and wireless training; PT and swimming; laundry (clothes scrubbed on floor); and recreation (boys swarm up rigging 'for fun').
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1940-09
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Pathe (Production company) Curtice, A V (Production individual) Watts, F (Production individual) Farmer, A (Production individual) Newberry, George (Production individual) Danvers-Walker, Bob1906-10-111990-05-17 (Production cast)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy (regiment/service)
- Keywords: medical, British naval - preventative: medical inspection (object name) recreation, British naval - sport (object name) recruitment, British: Royal Navy (object name) society, British naval - domestic (object name) society, British naval - sustenance (object name) training, British naval (object name) Havant, Hampshire, England, UK (geography) propaganda (concept)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1090 ft; Running time: 11 mins
- Notes: Remarks: stock-shot possibilities marred by fancy cutting.
- Link to IWM Collections page:
- Related IWM Collections Objects: