Metadata
- Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]
- Film Number: RMY 148-47
- Other titles:
- Summary:
- Description: I. Bomb aimer in Blenheim pretends to aim. Pilot at controls. (92 ft) II. Squadron of Oxford I trainers in flight over summer country, all marked with (training) numbers. (50 ft) III. Elderly women and men patients in hospital, and younger male patients. Vase of roses indicates summer. (94 ft) IV. RAF flag. (43 ft) V. Smashed window pane in blitzed London shop is cleared up in summer. VI. Czech and Polish members of the RAF relax together outdoors in summer playing bar skittles. Czech fighter pilots sit in deck chairs marked 310, possibly their Squadron number. (44 ft) VII. Blitzed house. (10 ft) VIII. Duchess of Gloucester in uniform of Air Commodore arrives on visit to air station and meets WAAF officers and chaplain. Wintry. (93 ft) IX. Six Curtiss Kittyhawks stand in hangar where mechanics work at benches. (99 ft) X. Clearing up blitzed house in summer. (30 ft) XI. Czech members of an RAF squadron march past on airfield in summer. (80 ft) XII. Czech and Polish members of the RAF continue playing skittles. (18 ft) XIII. Philippe de Gaulle hands back to his father General de Gaulle the (Free) French newspaper he has been reading. (99 ft) XIV. Civilian lies dead in vegetable garden in summer, possibly a blitz victim. (25 ft) XV. Czech members of an RAF squadron parade in front of a Hurricane on airfield in summer. (52 ft) XVI. US Eagle Squadron pilots arrive at Westminster Abbey for service to commemorate death in Battle of Britain of Pilot Officer William Fiske III "an American who died that England might live, 18 August 1940". Sinclair, Brendan Bracken and US Ambassador Winant see plaque unveiled. (160 ft) XVII. Firemen douse and demolish blitzed buildings in summer, with London bus marked Barking Broadway via Commercial Road in background indicating area is East End. (@)
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1941
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Bracken, Brendan (person) Gaulle, Charles André Joseph Marie de (person) Gaulle, Philippe de (person) Gloucester, Alice (Duchess) (person) Sinclair, Archibald Henry Macdonald (person) Winant, John Gilbert (person) Fiske, William, III (person) Royal Air Force, Czechoslovak personnel (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Polish personnel (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, United States personnel (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 71 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Air Force (regiment/service) National Fire Service (regiment/service)
- Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Bristol Blenheim (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Hawker Hurricane (object name) aircraft, British - light military: Airspeed Oxford (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Curtiss P-40 Kittyhawk (object name) casualties, British dead - civilian (object name) ceremonies, Allied - event-related: commemorative service for Pilot Officer William Fiske III (object name) demolition, British - clearance (object name) destruction, British military - area: bomb (object name) medical, British civilian - hospital (object name) operations, British air - maintenance (object name) recreation, British air - casual (object name) transport, British civilian - bus: London bus (object name) GB, England & London, WC <Westminster Abbey> (geography) East London, England, UK (geography) Summer (concept)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 1125 ft; Running time: 12 mins
- Notes: Production: part of a collection of unedited film shot by official cameramen on behalf of the Royal Air Force as a record of RAF activity before the formation of the RAF Film Production Unit in September 1941
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