Learning on ScreenMovietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Killing the Flying Bomb
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- British Movietone News
Issue
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- Story No. within this Issue
- 1 / 3
- Section Title
- Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Killing the Flying Bomb. DESCRIPTION: Southern England has already been hit by Hitler’s latest weapon, the Flying Bomb or "Doodlebug". Every effort is being made to shoot down these bombs and the RAF is striking at the launch sites in France. SHOTLIST: Cut story - RAFFI - Various shots of crashed (wreckage) "flying bomb" (Doodlebug). RAF Officers look at same. Aerial shots of flying over France, low flying explosions from supposed ramps, from which flying bombs take off. Still of rising smoke from explosions. More flying shots of same. Several shots of "Flying bomb" in flight, one of these is RAF material. Shot of "Flying Bomb" exploding in mid air.
- Keywords
- Buildings and structures; Weapons; Aviation; Fires; War damage; Censorship; Military
- Footage sources
- Royal Air Force Film Unit [RAFFU]
- Card file number
- 44918
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Alec Tozer
- Camera
- Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
- Camera
- John W. Cotter
- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Richard Harris
- Length of story (in feet)
- 109
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