Title:WINSTON CHURCHILL RETURNS FROM THE CASABLANCA CONFERENCE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:ARY 34
Other titles:
Summary: Winston Churchill arrives back from Casablanca.
Description: The reel opens with shots of luggage and BOAC personnel removing German rifles from the cargo bay of a Liberator. The Liberator carrying Sir Alan Brooke and Lord Cadogan taxies in. The Liberator Mk II 'Commando' (Churchill's personal transport) follows. Brooke is greeted by Lord Portal, Air Commodore Kingston McCloughry and the Station Commander, Group Captain Stanley Turner. Lord Cadogan stands in the background. After a mid shot of Churchill (wearing an RAF Air Commodore's uniform) and Portal (Commander Thompson can be glimpsed to the left) they get in to their car. Another view of the arrival is seen at the end of the reel. Close ups of the nose art of 'Commando' and the crates of oranges brought back from Morocco, together with scenes of luggage being removed from the Liberator are also shown, together with views of the fighter escort flying overhead.
Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor)
RAF Film Production Unit (Production company)
Baird, E (Production individual)
Pollard (Flying Officer) (Production individual)
Challis, Christopher George (Production individual)
Taylor (Sergeant) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Churchill, Winston Leonard Spencer (person)
Cadogan, Alexander George Montagu (person)
Thompson, Roy Charles Whitworth George (person)
Brooke, Alan Francis (person)
Portal, Charles Frederick Algernon (person)
Turner, Stanley (person)
McCloughry, Edgar James Kingston (person)
British Army, British Overseas Airways Corporation (regiment/service)
Royal Air Force, Sqdn 511 (regiment/service)
Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Supermarine Spitfire (object name)
aircraft, United States - transport: Consolidated C-87 Liberator Mk I & [British] (object name)
aircraft, United States - transport: Consolidated C-87 Liberator Mk II & [British] (object name)
GB, England & Lyneham, Wilts <RAF Station> (geography)
