Other titles:WRNS OFFICER RECRUITMENT 1973 [Alternative Title]
Summary: Documentary showing life in the Women's Royal Naval Service, described by Wrens in their own words.
Description: The demands and satisfactions of a career in the WRNS are illustrated by reference to work and off-duty scenes at a variety of naval establishments. A Wren, Margaret Adams, describes her job as a technical officer (checking data, giving instructions and watching a missile launch). Another Wren, Jackie Rogers, shares responsibility for safety during weapons exercises, having started as a rating and then attended the Royal Naval College, Greenwich. Scenes of life at the RNC: classes, drill, apprenticeship schemes, lectures and meal times in the spectacular Painted Hall. Off-duty: sightseeing in London, sport - fencing, trampolining. A Wren being fitted for a new uniform describes (voiceover) the selection boards for officers. The passing out parade: Wrens are given their commissions as probationary officers, in the presence of their families and the Admiral President of the College. Elsewhere, a Wren personnel selection officer drives to work in her Hillman Imp: she interviews a raw recruit. Variety of training available to Wrens, and its potential value in civilian life, is stressed, an example being computers. HMS Dryad shore establishment: Wrens describes living quarters busy social and sporting activities. Also shown are the Communications Centre, Counselling Services, the Commander-in-Chief's Branch. Finally Anne Nicholson, Reporting Officer of the Secretarial Branch, is seen taking up a new job in Gibraltar doing secretarial work for the Admirals staff and enjoying the foreign surroundings of the Rock, sightseeing, and the barbary apes.
Alternative Title:WRNS OFFICER RECRUITMENT 1973 [Alternative Title]
Production Details: Central Office of Information (Production sponsor)
Jackson, Robin (Production individual)
Barrier, Antony (Production individual)
Jackson, Robin (Production individual)
Minassian, George (Production individual)
Frost, Bob (Production individual)
Brommage, John (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Women's Royal Naval Service (regiment/service)
Keywords: propaganda, British - practical: recruitment, Women's Royal Naval Service (object name)
training, British naval (object name)
GB, England & London, SE <Greenwich - Royal Naval College> (geography)
Gibraltar (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: 16mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 599 ft; Running time: 17 mins
