ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: RMY 148-34
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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.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1941
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, conscripts (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: equipment, British air - personal: uniform, RAF (object name) medical, British air - preventative: examination (object name) recruitment, British: RAF conscripts (object name)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 850 ft; Running time: 9 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • 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
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    RMY 148-34

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