Title:AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION - JU 88 (PART 43) [Main Title]
Film Number:AMY 770
Other titles:JUNKERS JU 88 - AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION [Alternative Title]
RECOGNITION OF AIRCRAFT [Series Title]
Summary: Second World War aircraft recognition film, showing the Junkers Ju 88. Film uses diagrams, film footage and models.
Description: German film shows Ju 88 being wheeled out bomb attached, Ju 88s taking off and in flight, cockpit views, over the sea and over a coastal town, diving and releasing four bombs. Plane used in the recognition sequence which follows is a captured Ju 88 with RAF markings and camouflage. Plane is shown in flight and superimposed diagrams on frozen frames highlight its salient features. A cartoon sketch depicts the crew "sitting in a friendly huddle in the bulbous glazed cabin". After a stock-shot alarm, ack-ack, crash sequence (blazing plane crashes, bounces, sinks in sea), salient recognition points are recapitulated.
Alternative Title:JUNKERS JU 88 - AIRCRAFT RECOGNITION [Alternative Title]
RECOGNITION OF AIRCRAFT [Series Title]
Production Details: Air Ministry (Production sponsor)
Admiralty (Production sponsor)
Directorate of Army Kinematography (Production sponsor)
Army Kinema Corporation (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords:
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: English
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 596 ft; Running time: 7 mins
