The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Air Forces Show Their Paces

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
546
Date Released
20 Nov 1939
Date submitted
16 Nov 1939
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Convoys Beating the U-Boats
  2. 2The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: In Memory of Edith Cavell
  3. 3The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: The Poilu Remembers
  4. 4The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Give Paris the Once-Over
  5. 5The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: And Still They Come
  6. 6The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: BEF Lay Its Own Railways
  7. 7The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Petrol - Everywhere for Anywhere
  8. 8The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: C-In-C Lays His Wreath
  9. 9The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Dominion Ministers on Western Front
  10. 10The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Air Forces Show Their Paces

Story

Story No. within this Issue
10 / 10
Section Title
The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Allied Air Victories. DESCRIPTION: The RAF ‘Spitfires’ have won all their recent combats. The most spectacular feat was the routing of twenty-seven Messerschmitts by the French Air Force with a third of the numbers of planes. SHOTLIST: Shots of the burning ruins of a German Messerschmitt bombers which crashed. One of the pilots escaped and is seen in internment. Another bomber crashed and the remains are towed proudly through the streets. Shot of the Curtiss planes which did most of the damage. Good shots of spitfires.
Keywords
Aviation; Fires; Prisoners of war; Military
Footage sources
France
Card file number
37781
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
105
Story extras:
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