Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: RAF Photographs German Defences

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

542

Date Released

23 Oct 1939

Date submitted

19 Oct 1939

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: With the BEF in France
2. 2Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: The Duke of Windsor at French HQ
3. 3Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: RAF Photographs German Defences
4. 4Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: Nazi Airmen’s Funeral
5. 5Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: Midlands Floods
6. 6Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: Army Football
7. 7Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: Two Cambridgeshires
8. 8Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad: French Frontier Defences

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 8

Section Title

Leslie Mitchell Surveys the War Time Situation at Home and Abroad

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: War: RAF Photographic Section. DESCRIPTION: The RAF Photographic Section carries out reconnaissance over Germany. SHOTLIST: Work is carried out on a prospective aerodrome and trees are removed bodily by being attached to the backs of lorries which are started up. The Photographers get into planes and take off. Up above library shots give an impression of what the ground looks like below. The plane comes back to earth and the photographs are rushed to a portable laboratory where they are developed and printed.

Keywords

Environment; Aviation; Military

Footage sources

British Paramount

Card file number

37630

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

69

Story extras:

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