ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: RMY 148-16
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Views on board an Air-Sea Rescue launch show wireless operator tapping out Morse and Vickers machine gunner rotating turret and firing, within sight of land. (321 ft) II. WAAFs play ping pong and darts before lunching in the sergeants' mess. (102 ft) III. WAAFs repair, inflate and enter barrage balloon. (280 ft)
  • 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, Air-Sea Rescue Service (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Air Force (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - balloon: barrage balloon (object name) communications, British military - wire: Morse code (object name) operations, British air - maintenance: barrage balloon (object name) recreation, British air - sport: table tennis (object name) society, British military - sustenance (object name) ships, British auxiliary - assistance: Air-Sea Rescue Launch (object name) weapons, British - smallarm (mounted): Vickers machine gun (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: 703 ft; Running time: 8 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
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    RMY 148-16

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