Title:WAR IN THE AIR NO 7 - THE RISING SUN [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 721
Other titles:THE RISING SUN [Alternative Title]
WAR IN THE AIR [Series Title]
Summary: Seventh film in a series showing the story of air power and its impact on the world. This episode shows the war in the Far East, indicating Japan's growing involvement and strength.
Description: The film shows that in the first two years of the war in Europe our Eastern dominions were safe enough and that this area was the source of the raw materials that were needed to sustain our Commonwealth and wage war against Hitler's Germany. The situation in the Far East in 1941 and the strength of the Japanese; December 1941, the attack on Pearl Harbor and control of the air and sea; the attack on Ceylon, Easter 1942, and the cutting of the Burma road to break Allied communications; the Americans preparing for war; Australia and New Zealand now having to defend themselves instead of taking part in a distant war; the Japanese attack on Midway; the American attack on Guadalcanal. By February 1943 the Americans were beginning to start making landing craft and aimed to throw the Japanese off every island right up to Tokyo.
Alternative Title:THE RISING SUN [Alternative Title]
WAR IN THE AIR [Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:COI 721
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)
Gerhard, Roberto (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)
Edwards, Dennis (Production individual)
Crombie, Stuart (Production individual)
Phipps, Vernon (Production individual)
Phillips, Leslie (Production individual)
Elliot, John (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
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: 4
Footage: 2936 ft; Running time: 33 mins
