RAF OFF DUTY [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: RAF OFF DUTY [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: AAY 243
  • Other titles:
  • Summary: RAF personnel involved in spare time activities at a camp at Zara, Yugoslavia.
  • Description: (Rolls 48-49, 6/4/1945) A man in shorts walks off into the trees carrying a toilet roll and a spade; he is then seen returning; two men shave outside their tent using a mirror tied to a tree; a man succeeds in threading a needle after a number of attempts, and then sets about repairing a rip in his colleague's jacket; the colleague comes out to inspect the repair and appears unimpressed; an RAF Film Production Unit jeep drives up with a load of wood for a fire; a man puts a record on a wind-up gramophone.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1945-04-06
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor) RAF Film Production Unit No 2 (Production company) Coop, Eric W (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Air Force, FPU, 2 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: society, British military - hygiene: field sanitation (object name) recreation, British military - casual: gramophone (object name) society, British military - domestic: sewing (object name) Yugoslavia & Zara, Croatia (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 16mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 200 ft (ca); Running time: 6 mins
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  • Notes: Production: see note to AAY 233 Title: title taken from dopesheet Technical: held on same reel as AAY 244.
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AAY 243

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