HUNS SURRENDERING BATTLEPLANES - BRITISH AIRMAN TAKES A TRIP IN A FOKKER [Main Title]

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  • Title: HUNS SURRENDERING BATTLEPLANES - BRITISH AIRMAN TAKES A TRIP IN A FOKKER [Main Title]
  • Film Number: IWM 379
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  • Summary: British or Australian airmen testing captured German aeroplanes, possibly at Bickendorf aerodrome, Cologne, December 1918.
  • Description: A German aerodrome, where British aircrew (including a Captain Benson) and groundcrew pose for the camera. Some of them are wearing bush hats. In front of a hangar are four Fokker DVII fighters, one with its prop turning over. A pilot gets into one of the aircraft. The wrecks of two other Fokkers with their wings missing are guarded by British soldiers. The pilot settles into the Fokker DVII and it begins to roll forward. Another pilot sits, as a joke, in the cockpit of a wreck which has one wing bent and draped over obscuring its fuselage. Two of the Fokkers taxi towards and past the camera. A partially stripped wreck of a Junkers JI ground attack aircraft is looked over by the pilots. A line of the Fokker DVIIs carrying various distinctive squadron or personal markings. A pilot boards one of the planes, the German markings of which have been obscured, and it takes off, overflying the camera. Another view of the line of Fokkers, and of the aircraft taking off.
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: IWM 379
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (IWM 379)
  • Featured Period: 1914-1918
  • Production Date: 1918
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Topical Film Company (Production company) Wilson, F (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Benson (Captain RFC) (person) Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, German - combat: Fokker DVII & [captured] (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Fokker DVII & [captured] & [wrecked] (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Junkers JI & [captured] & [wrecked] (object name) First World War, Armistice & 12/1918 (event) Germany & Cologne, North Rhine Westphalia <Birkendorf aerodrome> (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: English Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 269 ft; Running time: 4 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    IWM 379

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