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Summary: RAF conscripts receive kit and undergo selection tests.
Description: Conscripts are handed out uniforms and caps inside an RAF depot, then outside watch men already in uniform march past in summer. Indoors, conscripts still in civvies fill out forms or test papers and are individually interviewed by a Group Captain and Wing Commander. Interviewee has eyesight and lung capacity checked by RAF doctor.
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 850 ft; Running time: 9 mins
Notes: Production: part of a collection of unedited film shot by official cameramen on behalf of the Royal Air Force as a record of RAF activity before the formation of the RAF Film Production Unit in September 1941