ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: RMY 148-11
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  • Summary:
  • Description: I. Curtiss P-40s are assembled in a British factory. (98 ft) II. Stirling of 7 Squadron taxies on airfield near Halifax I, possibly of 35 Squadron. (7 Squadron based at Leeming till 29 October 1940, 35 Squadron from 20 November 1940.) (15 ft) III. Flying Fortress B-17C (AN 519) of 90 Squadron revs engines. (18 ft) IV. Men clear rubble from bombed house. (24 ft) V. US roving ambassador Harry Hopkins with Winston Churchill in cold weather. (Possibly during January or February tour of 1941.) (11 ft) VI. RAF Air-Sea Rescue launch pretends to effect rescue. (26 ft) VII. Gunners man waist turrets in Sunderland. (49 ft) VIII. Stirling from item I lands on airfield in summer. (28 ft) IX. Harry Hopkins speaks with Polish pilots of RAF 306 or 308 Squadron at Northolt on 21 July 1941. (20 ft) X. US air attaché General Chaney with British Minister for Aircraft Production Moore-Brabazon on tarmac at Northolt on 21 July 1941. (2 ft) XI. RAF officers lunch in mess. (88 ft) XII. Group Captain takes salute at marchpast by boys in the Air Training Corps, some still in civvies. (97 ft) XIII. White cliffs of Dover in summer. (23 ft) XIV. Cockpit view in flight. (9 ft) XV. General Sikorski with Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal and an Air Vice Marshal inspects Polish members of the RAF on Polish Air Force Day. Polish bishop consecrates flag. Polish inscription on hangar reads "For our freedom and yours". (73 ft) XVI. RAF commissioned and non-commissioned officers lunch at separate messes. (154 ft) XVII. Airman in mess reads newspaper with headline "Biggest raid on Britain kills 8, 60 hurt". (22 ft) XVIII. B-17C (AN 519) of 90 Squadron taxies. (6 ft) XIX. Harry Hopkins seated beside cigar-smoking Winston Churchill. (30 ft) XX. Blenheim Is pass overhead. (54 ft)
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  • Colour: B&W
  • Digitised: Yes
  • Object_Number: RMY 148-11
  • Sound: Silent
  • 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: Chaney, James Eugene (person) Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person) George VI, King (person) Hopkins, Harry L (person) Moore-Brabazon, John Theodore Cuthbert (person) Portal, Charles Frederick Algernon (person) Sikorski, Władysław (person) Street, Arthur William (person) Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 7 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 35 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Sqdn, 90 (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Polish personnel (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Air-Sea Rescue Service (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Air Training Corps (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Bristol Blenheim (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Handley Page Halifax (object name) aircraft, British - combat: Short Stirling (object name) aircraft, British - seaplane: Short Sunderland (object name) aircraft, United States - transport: Curtiss C-46 Commando & [British] (object name) aircraft, United States - combat: Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress & [British] (object name) ceremonies, Polish - event-related: Polish Air Force Day (object name) demolition, British - clearance (object name) industry, British - aircraft (object name) society, British air - sustenance (object name) GB, England & Canterbury, Kent <Cathedral> (geography) GB, England & London, WC <Air Ministry & King Charles Street> (geography) GB England & Northolt, Middx <RAF Station> (geography) GB, England & Dover, Kent <White Cliffs> (geography)
  • 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: 1093 ft; Running time: 12 mins
  • HD Media:Yes
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