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 Training on beach and on promenade with pier in background.
L/S In gym with former boxers Harvey and Phillips teaching recruits to box. L/S of recruits in communal dining hall at lunch. M/S of air crews map-reading on airfield with training aircraft in background L/S Line of aircraft (Avro Anson's) warming up for take-off. M/S of instructor seated in cockpit giving instruction to recruit prior to takeoff. (Natural sound). L/S of training planes taking off.
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Description
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Data
- Archive
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 23/11/1939
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 20375
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Film ID:
- 1023.40
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration
- 00:02:01:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:39:15:00 / 01:41:16:00
- Canister:
- 39/78
- Sort Number:
- 39/078
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chosenman says
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.