Title:WAR IN THE AIR NO 12 - THE COLD DAWN [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 726
Other titles:THE COLD DAWN [Alternative Title]
WAR IN THE AIR [Series Title]
Summary: The twelfth in a series of films showing the story of air power and its impact on the world. This episode deals with the fifth winter of the war and on events leading up to D-Day.
Description: The film shows: the British waiting for news from Europe; war correspondents reporting. Ronald Walker of the News Chronicle writing on the enemy's strike against the Norwegian coast; a report on conditions in the Ardennes (16th December 1944); Godfrey Talbot reporting to the BBC from Italy; the enemy being forced out of the Balkans; a Daily Telegraph correspondent reporting from Greece; a Daily Express report from Germany; the Lancasters flying against the Germans and the day and night attacks on Germany; Wynford Vaughan Thomas reporting from the Rhine and Richard Dimbleby at the last stages of attack; shots of world newspapers announcing VE Day; scenes inside Belsen; wrecked aeroplanes and German airfields, and scenes of Germany as it is now.
Alternative Title:THE COLD DAWN [Alternative Title]
WAR IN THE AIR [Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:No
Object_Number:COI 726
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)
Parker, Clifton (Production individual)
London Symphony Orchestra (Production individual)
Mathieson, Muir (Production individual)
Nevill, Roy D (Production individual)
Hill, Rosemary (Production individual)
Bingham, Marie (Production individual)
Harris, Noel (Production individual)
Edwards, Dennis (Production individual)
Pople, James (Production individual)
Crombie, Stuart (Production individual)
Phipps, Vernon (Production individual)
Byers, John (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: 2804 ft; Running time: 31 mins
