Summary: British training film on the use of the Lewis machine gun in an anti-aircraft rôle, made shortly after the First World War.
Description: Not a finished film but the jumbled remains of one. It consists partly of long sections of subtitle captions without accompanying images, and staged actuality material of two soldiers using a Lewis machine gun in an anti-aircraft role, with aeroplanes flying overhead and apparently crashing. The aeroplanes are all British, and some have only minor damage. The bulk of the film is of repeated animated scenes of the correct alignment of Lewis gun bead sights in order to 'lead' the aircraft correctly when firing.
Production Details: War Office (Production sponsor)
Baron Hartley (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: training, British military - combat: anti-aircraft (object name)
weapons, British - smallarm: Lewis machine gun (object name)
GB, England (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Silent
Soundtrack language: None
Title language: None
Subtitle language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 925 ft; Running time: 16 mins