Fighting Fit The RAF In Training 1939

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Full titles read: "FIGHTING FIT - THE RAF IN TRAINING"

M/S Air Commodore Critchley and Corporals Len Harvey and Eddie Phillips watching from side of swimming pool in Brighton, East Sussex. L/S of new RAF (Royal Air Force) recruits swimming in large open-air pool. L/S of recruits doing Physical...

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Cataloguer:
Howard
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
20375
Sort Number:
39/078
Time in/Out:
01:39:15:00 / 01:41:16:00
Canister:
39/78
Film ID:
1023.40
Issue Date:
23/11/1939

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  • The swimming pool in this film is actually West St. Leonards, not Brighton. The pool is no longer there. The pier in the film is Brighton though.

    chosenman 15th May 2013

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