Title:WAR IN THE AIR NO 3 - FIFTY NORTH [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 717
Other titles:FIFTY NORTH [Alternative Title]
WAR IN THE AIR [Series Title]
Summary: Third film in a series showing the story of air power and its impact on the world. This episode illustrates the defence of the Western oceans.
Description: The film shows: Churchills words to Roosevelt that, in August 1940, 'the Germans have the whole French coastline on which to launch attacks upon our trade and food'; the Luftwaffe attacking from bases all along the coast from the Arctic to the Channel a few weeks after the fall of Norway and France; the British moving into Iceland and establishing an airfield and a flying boat base where 'we mount a final guard over the enemy's advance'; 1941, Canada receiving aircraft from the aircraft factories in America to reinforce coastal command in Britain; aircraft patrols; the sinking of the Bismarck, May 1941; extensive footage (with voice-over eyewitness accounts) of the Battle of the Atlantic Gap, which by the summer of 1942 was at its height; and the final idea that 'the end of a patrol is only a beginning, victory is still way down the horizon'.
Alternative Title:FIFTY NORTH [Alternative Title]
WAR IN THE AIR [Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:COI 717
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1946-1975
Production Date:1954
Production Country: GB
Production Details: BBC Film Unit (Production company)
Dorte, Philip (Production individual)
Elliot, John (Production individual)
Joubert de la Ferte, Philip Bennet1887-05-211965-01-21 (Production individual)
Bliss, Arthur Edward Drummond1891-08-031975-03-27 (Production individual)
Alwyn, William (Production individual)
London Symphony Orchestra (Production individual)
Mathieson, Muir (Production individual)
Byers, John (Production individual)
Rick, Kenneth Kino19142004 (Production individual)
Hill, Rosemary (Production individual)
Dicks, Ray (Production individual)
Taylor, Maureen (Production individual)
Noble, Ronald 'Ronnie (Production individual)
Edwards, Dennis (Production individual)
Baines, Geoffrey (Production individual)
Crombie, Stuart (Production individual)
Elliot, John (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
Keywords:
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: 3
Footage: 2756 ft; Running time: 28 mins
