ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: RMY 148-38
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Minister for Aircraft Production Moore-Brabazon speaks from podium to RAF personnel and civilian workers in hangar. Audience includes at least one US member of Air Transport Auxiliary. (98 ft) II. Machine gun cartridges are automatically fed into a belt. (76 ft) III. RAF bomb trolley loaded with small incendiaries and HEs crosses airfield in summer. (29 ft) IV. Fighters off Dover coast. (11 ft) V. Blitzed houses in summer. (11 ft) VI. Field burns in summer, possibly after incendiary attack. (67 ft) VII. Hurricane test-fires its guns at the butts. (78 ft) VIII. Two US Eagle Squadron pilots pass Hurricane. (20 ft) IX. "March of Time. Menkin" inscribed on print. Messerschmitt Bf 109Es in dogfight off Dover coast. (49 ft) X. Soldiers, one wearing a gas mask, carry stretcher case through railway station, possibly pilot injured over Kent. (48 ft) XI. Arming a fighter. (86 ft) XII. Air Vice Marshal comes out of King Charles Street in Whitehall and inspects RAF personnel in sandbagged courtyard of Air Ministry. (96 ft) XIII. Clearing up glass outside blitzed shop in London. (17 ft) XIV. Firemen play hoses on blitzed building in London. (36 ft) XV. Lord Halifax emerges from an underground shelter, possibly by the Foreign Office. (8 ft) XVI. Group of about one dozen US members of RAF Air Transport Auxiliary stand on an airfield in summer. (58 ft) XVII. Group of about one dozen US Eagle Squadron fighter pilots stand beside a Hurricane of 71 Squadron. (41 ft) XVIII. Air Vice Marshal with USN commander (US naval attaché) stands beneath wing of Boeing B-17C (AN 519) at Northolt on 21 July 1941. Sinclair, Churchill, Harry Hopkins and General Chaney walk away from B-17C of 90 Squadron. (78 ft) XIX. Blitzed terraced housing in summer. (74 ft) XX. Blackened Beaufighter VIF/C taxies and takes off in summer. (46 ft)
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: RMY 148-38
  • Sound: Silent
  • 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: Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person) Chaney, James Eugene (person) Halifax, Edward Frederick Lindley Wood (person) Hopkins, Harry L (person) Moore-Brabazon, John Theodore Cuthbert (person) Sinclair, Archibald Henry Macdonald (person) Royal Air Force, Air Transport Auxiliary (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 90 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 71 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, United States personnel (regiment/service) British Army (regiment/service) United States Navy (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Bristol Beaufighter (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Hurricane (object name) aircraft, German - combat: Messerschmitt Bf 109 E (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress & [British] (object name) casualties, British wounded (object name) combat, British - air-air (object name) destruction, British: fire (object name) destruction, British military - area: bomb (object name) medical, British military - movement: stretcher (object name) operations, British air - preparation (object name) operations, British air - sortie (object name) society, British - precautionary: air raid shelter (object name) weapons, British air - bomb (object name) Dover, Kent, England, UK (geography) GB, England & London, WC <Air Ministry> (geography) GB, England & London, WC <King Charles Street> (geography) GB, England & Northolt, Middx <RAF Station> (geography)
  • 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: 1029 ft; Running time: 12 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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