Other titles:AMATEUR FILM BY GROUP CAPTAIN F C RICHARDSON [Alternative Title]
Summary: Scenes taken by Group Captain F C Richardson when serving with 216 (Bomber Transport) Squadron RAF. In the 1930s the squadron was based in Heliopolis, Egypt, but was involved in transport duties in North Africa in South Sudan, where this footage was shot.
Description: The film is a montage of shots rapidly intercutting between one another, but covering various themes, including aerial views over Sudan (the rivers Nile and Sobat, landscapes and native villages) and shots of work on a barren makeshift airstrip. Here, the RAF crews and local native people service and load the Armstrong Whitworth Atlas and Vickers Valentia Type 264 aircraft. Numerous scenes show the local village life of the Nuer tribe; thatched tukul-style huts, naked villagers, watering hole, cattle. Boats on the Nile. A scene at the end of the film shows a casualty on a stretcher being loaded on board a Vickers Valentia aircraft through a small door in the nose.
Alternative Title:AMATEUR FILM BY GROUP CAPTAIN F C RICHARDSON [Alternative Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:MGH 1924
Sound:Silent
Access Conditions:To be established
Featured Period:
Production Date:1935
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Richardson, Frederick Charles1912-01-241995-10-12Family origin: Streatham, London (Production individual)
