THE "MANY" REMEMBER aka BATTLE OF BRITAIN

The "Many" Remember AKA Battle Of Britain 1952

Star Item

Description

SV. Pan up, showing empty runway at Biggin Hill Aerodrome. CU. Sign "Royal Air Force" Biggin Hill. GV. Memorial Chapel LV. Line of Gloster Meteor 'planes. LV. Showing old and new control towers on aerodrome. SV. Officers at controls. Shot looking through window, Gloucester Meteor taxiing past. SV. Officers looking out of window. SV. Pan, Meteor taxiing past. STV. Interior officers drinking at bar. & SV. CU. Pan, three Royal Air Force types smiling. SV. Dog drinking out of tankard. SV. R.A.F. types looking at model at spitfire. CU. Model of spitfire. SV. Paintings on mess wall. CU. Pan picture of Sailor Malan riding Spitfire pan to others.

SV. Group, of Battle of Britain pilots with Air Chief Marshal Lord Dowding talking to Group Captain Douglas Bader, pan to other pilots including Stanford Tuck. SCU. Group Captain Bader talking to high ranking officers. SV. Dowding talking to Tuck. LV. Pan, pilots scrambling to Spitfire CU. Nose of spitfire SCU. Pilots giving thumbs-up. LV. Pan Squadron of Hurricanes taking off. SCU. Towards, Hurricane taking off. LV. Squadron flying across sky. LV. German Junkers JU. 88's being attacked. LV. Towards Spitfire peeling off after attack. SV. German aircraft being hit. LV. Enemy raiders overhead. CU. Two spitfires in formation. LV. Enemy raider diving in flames. LV. Pilot descending in shot-away parachute. LV. Enemy aircraft hitting water. CU. Wreckage of Heinkel fuselage in graveyard GV. German aircraft in graveyard. MV. Workmen carrying part of German aircraft fuselage scrap heap. SV. Wing of aircraft. CU. German insignia on battered wing.

LV. Towards and pan, Canberra taking off. LV. Pan Canberra taking off. CU. Pan, Canberra taking off. CU. RAF man looking up. SV. Canberras in flight. GV. Canberras in flight. SV. Air to air, Canberras passing camera. GV. Officials looking upon Air Ministry roof. SCU. Earl Harold Alexander (Defence Minister) and Air Chief Marshal Sir John Baker looking up. LV. Pan, Hawker Hurricane flying across Air Ministry roof. CU. Lord Tedder and son looking up. CU. Sir William Joseph Slim (CIGS) looking up. CU. Admiral Sir Roderick Macgrigor (C-in-C Home Fleet) looking up. CU. Major-General F. Griswold, U.S.A.F. looking up. GV. People on roof of Air Ministry, pan up to De Havilland Hawker Hunter. GV. Elevated air to air, Gloster Meteors flying over London.
(Orig. Neg & Lav.) (Orig. "E") Selected originals exist for this item - see other records.

less

Data

Cataloguer:: Mark
Stock:: Black & White
Sound:: Sound
Media URN:: 27475
Sort Number:: 52/076

Time in/Out:: 01:50:26:00 / 01:53:30:00
Canister:: 52/76
Film ID:: 28.47
Issue Date:: 18/09/1952

Stills

Comments (0)

We always welcome comments and more information about our films.

All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.

Add your comment

10 Dangerous DareDevils

More Galleries

Adrenaline seekers from the past have left an indelible mark on the Pathe archive. Some were so dangerous they even lost their lives. Here are 10 top daredevils.

Twenty Acts of Terror

More Galleries

Terrorism is nothing new. The Pathe archive has a vast collection of material related to terrorist attacks dating back to 1919 right through to the 2005 London bombings.

10 Tragedies Caught on Film

More Galleries

British Pathe captured many extraordinary events on film over its 80 year history but sometimes the cameras were switched on when tragedy struck.

Related Videos

Hide

: Royal Diary - Biggin Hill; Queen mother visits Biggin Hill by helicopter.

: Churchill At Biggin Hill; Winston Churchill visits 615 Squadron RAAF at Biggin Hill.

: Biggin Hill Air Fair (News Takes The Air); International Air Fair at Biggin Hill, includes vintage planes and Eric Sykes.

: RAF Auxiliary: Biggin Hill; Air Secretary Arthur Henderson inspects Royal Air Force auxiliaries at Biggin Hill, Kent.

: Queen At Biggin Hill; Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother) visits 600 Squadron at Biggin Hill and makes speech.

: Queen At Biggin Hill; Queen Elizabeth (Queen Mother) visits No. 600 RAAF at Biggin Hill, Kent.

: ( Shah Of Persia Visits Biggin Hill ); Shah of Iran visits RAF Biggin Hill with Under-secretary of Air George Ward.

: Planes Prepare For England - Australia Race; Planes are getting ready for the England - Australia air race at Biggin Hill.

&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;script type="mce-text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://adserver.adtech.de/addyn/3.0/1287/3694797/0/170/ADTECH;loc=700;key=oly12; target=_blank;grp=[group]" data-mce-src="http://adserver.adtech.de/addyn/3.0/1287/3694797/0/170/ADTECH;loc=700;key=oly12;target=_blank;grp=[group]"&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/script&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;noscript&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;a href="http://adserver.adtech.de/adlink/3.0/1287/3694797/0/170/ADTECH;loc=300;key=oly12;grp=[group]" target="_blank"&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;img src="http://adserver.adtech.de/adserv/3.0/1287/3694797/0/170/ADTECH;loc=300;key=oly12;grp=[group]" border="0" width="300" height="250"&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/a&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;&amp;amp;amp;amp;lt;/noscript&amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;

Death Row in Wartime: 8 Images

More Galleries

The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.

Buchenwald Concentration Camp

More Galleries

The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.

Winston Churchill’s Finest Quotes

More Galleries

The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.

Bloodiest Battles Caught On Film

More Galleries

WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.

Vertigo: Nerves of Steel

More Galleries

Life before health and safety laws; men worked at huge heights, balancing on girders and cranes all in order to help build the world's tallest skyscrapers.

10 Amazing Transport Inventions

More Galleries

Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.

10 Faces of Evil

More Galleries

Over its history, the Pathe cameras filmed a number of people who had committed heinous crimes. So in no particular order, these images show ten faces of truly evil men and women.