Metadata
- Title: THE OWNER GOES ALOFT [Main Title]
- Film Number: COI 275
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- Summary: A National Savings Film explaining how savings are used to equip the RAF.
- Description: A civilian (G H Mulcaster) is arrested wandering round an Air Force fighter station. Questioned by the station commander, he hotly denies being a spy: since his National Savings had helped equip the RAF he was exercising his "owner's" rights of looking around, and asks for "a flip in a fighter." The Commander is unable to permit this, but as next best thing gives him a flight in a Link trainer; the civilian imagines a colossal 'dogfight' and has to be rescued when the machine goes berserk as he attempts to put it through a victory roll. The closing dialogue states the film's message: C/O - "The more you and your friends put your hands in your pockets the sooner we'll all be doing the victory roll". Civilian - "As long as you want aeroplanes you are going to get them."
- Access Conditions:
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1941-06
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: National Savings Committee (Production sponsor) Ministry of Information (Production sponsor) Spectator (Production company) Scott, Ivan (Production individual) Luff, A H (Production individual) Hornby, C (Production individual) Wiggins, N (Production individual) Bland, William S (Production individual) Doe, Charles (Production cast) Mulcaster, G H (Production cast)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
- Keywords: equipment, British air - training: Link trainer (object name) propaganda, British - practical (object name)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 577 ft; Running time: 6 mins
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