LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD [Main Title]

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  • Title: LOCAL BOY MAKES GOOD [Main Title]
  • Film Number: AMY 48-3
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  • Summary: Instructional cartoon reminds aircrews always to wear oxygen masks when flying at high altitudes.
  • Description: Subtitled "a story with a moral" humorous little cartoon story suggests the dangerous consequences of failing to wear oxygen masks. Pilot and gunner of climbing British plane, not noticing the increasingly frantic gesticulations of the panel oxygen indicator, become steadily drowsier. Nazi fighters, piloted by ugly creatures who are gulping down oxygen, approach unobserved and are about to down the British plane when its crew, suddenly remembering their oxygen masks, pull them on and, alert once more, shoot down their assailants.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: AMY 48-3
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1940
  • Production Country: GB
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  • Keywords: propaganda, British - practical (object name) training, British air (object name) Animation (concept) Instruction (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: Music only Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 283 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    AMY 48-3

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    AMY 48 (THE USE OF OXYGEN IN HIGH FLYING [Main Title])
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