The sports are held by convalescent soldiers wearing hospital blue uniforms, and by nurses. A man and woman in civilian clothes, well-dressed, throw sweets to the crowd of convalescents. The sports co...
Colonel Samson is not clearly visible in the film. The DH4, fitted with floats and no wheels, taxies through the water behind a Felixstowe flying boat, which takes off ahead of it. The DH4 then thrott...
The film emphasises the pre-war uniqueness of Britain, rich, insular, with a strong trading position and a free democracy united under the constitutional monarchy. The only pre-war violence comes in t...
A pan over the wooden-hutted camp, with a few soldiers in the distance. The caption reads "Where they cannot pillage - German soldiers 'lock up' at Bergen" (see notes).Four soldiers gather around a br...
The film uses actuality material backed by some acting. It begins with a WAAC recruiting march and inspection, before going on to show a girl noticing the advertisement placard for Queen Mary's Army A...
I. Women use various types of heavy plant, chiefly lathes or punches, to make Lewis machine guns. One group rivets on the retaining pieces to the ammunition pans. Spraying the ammunition pans. Making ...
Uses of flying boats in the war, starting with a Felixstowe flying boat coming in to land at its base, probably Hamble, followed by a rare CE1 flying boat also landing. The main subject of the film is...
I. 'GOVERNMENT'S ITINERANT WAR CINEMA. Lord Beaverbrook inspects fleet of Cine-Motors which will depict war truths in the villages.' MS over the lowered side of a truck to the rear compartment where a...