Title:WAR IN THE AIR NO 2 - BATTLE FOR BRITAIN [Main Title]
Film Number:COI 716
Other titles:BATTLE FOR BRITAIN [Alternative Title]
WAR IN THE AIR [Series Title]
Summary: Second film in a series showing the story of air power and its impact on the world. This episode shows the battle over Britain.
Description: The film shows: Churchill's voice over scenes of UK, England; Hurricanes and Spitfires hidden from German reconnaissance; the importance of radar; the Air Force waiting for action; women in the Air Force; preparation for attack; shots of newspapers, with voice-over giving our progresses and losses on the attack; how people in London are managing, including some scenes from the film 'Ordinary People' (COI 506); footage of aircraft and the attack; postponement of Operation Sealion; a Harvest Festival service, putting forward the idea of 'the harvest being safely gathered in'; Churchill visiting the people during the attack on Britain; the nightly siege of London; attacks on London, Manchester, Liverpool, Bristol and Plymouth, Southampton, Sheffield, Birmingham and Coventry, and the way that these cities still managed to get to work on time every day. The film concludes by saying that 'we have lost over one million houses, forty thousand citizens have died but our cities still live'.
Alternative Title:BATTLE FOR BRITAIN [Alternative Title]
WAR IN THE AIR [Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:
Object_Number:COI 716
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:1946-1975
Production Date:1954
Production Country: GB
Production Details: BBC Film Unit (Production company)
Dorte, Philip (Production individual)
Elliot, John (Production individual)
Joubert de la Ferte, Philip Bennet1887-05-211965-01-21 (Production individual)
Bliss, Arthur Edward Drummond1891-08-031975-03-27 (Production individual)
Gerhard, Roberto (Production individual)
London Symphony Orchestra (Production individual)
Mathieson, Muir (Production individual)
Byers, John (Production individual)
Rick, Kenneth Kino19142004 (Production individual)
Hill, Rosemary (Production individual)
Dicks, Ray (Production individual)
Taylor, Maureen (Production individual)
Noble, Ronald 'Ronnie (Production individual)
Edwards, Dennis (Production individual)
Baines, Geoffrey (Production individual)
Crombie, Stuart (Production individual)
Phipps, Vernon (Production individual)
Dines, Harold (Production individual)
Elliot, John (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
Royal Air Force (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Hurricane (object name)
aircraft, British - combat: Supermarine Spitfire (object name)
society, British - history: Battle of Britain (object name)
GB, England (geography)
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: 4
Footage: 2684 ft; Running time: 30 mins
