Film Record: Wings of Tomorrow

Identifier:

• 4277 (Source: East Anglian Film Archive)

Date produced: 1940

Filmmaker(s):

D. Shaw Ashton

Country of Production:

United Kingdom

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:12:04

Length:

450 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

B&W

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Daily Mail Trophy, 1946.

Description:

"A documentary made in association with the Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch Wing of the Air Training Corps (ATC) produced under the auspices of the Air Ministry. A young man works in a grocer's shop and wraps up slices of bacon in a newspaper telling of Hitler' s victories. He cuts out a piece about the ATC. With friends he goes to the cinema (the Moderne) to see 'Week-End in Havana' (1941) and in the foyer signs up for the ATC as a flight mechanic. (EAFA Database)

Resources:

IAC Film Library Catalogue (Silent and Sound). Institute of Amateur Cinematographers, 1975.
This film is part of the Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection held by the East Anglian Film Archive, Norwich, UK.

Locations:

• Bournemouth, UK ()
• Poole, UK ()
• Christchurch, UK ()

Subjects:

• Politics
•      War
•           Military

Genre:

• Documentary

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

Institute of Amateur Cinematographers Collection, East Anglian Film Archive

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