HMS ALBION ENTERTAINS THE CHILDREN OF COPENHAGEN [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: HMS ALBION ENTERTAINS THE CHILDREN OF COPENHAGEN [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ADM 1566
  • Other titles: POST-WAR NAVAL OPERATIONS - MISCELLANEOUS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: A children's party is held on the deck of HMS Albion during a visit to Copenhagen.
  • Description: Shots of a children's party held on the flightdeck of HMS Albion, alongside in Copenhagen. The amusements include a slide, roundabout, see-saws, and a miniature train. The pièce de resistance is a mock jet fighter made from a drop tank, and rigged to run down a rope from the bridge to the flightdeck. The plane is extremely artful, equipped with details like wing-tip fuel tanks, landing skids, squadron badge and recognition codes, and a carefully crafted open cockpit for its young pilots. Understandably, there is a long queue for this particular ride.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1955-10
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Admiralty (Production sponsor)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, ALBION (HMS), aircraft carrier (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: ships, British naval - aircraft carrier, light: Albion (object name) society, British naval - friendship: childrens' party (object name) Denmark & Copenhagen (geography) Children (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: 337 ft; Running time: 4 mins
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  • Notes: Summary: the Navy seems to have been rather imaginative in its use of drop tanks - see ADM 1585 for another fine example
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    ADM 1566

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