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With the Royal Flying Corps

Item number (ISN):

275455

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1917-08

Item number (ISN):

275455

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Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM

Accession:

1997-0507

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1917-08

Release date:

1917-12

Production company:

Topical Film Company

Production credit:

producer, William F. Jury; photography, [J.B. McDowell]; [H.C. Raymond]

Sponsor:

War Office Cinema Committee

Description:

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RFC base at Ste-Marie-Capel, Western Front, late August 1917.~A Nieuport 17 of "B" Flight, 60 Fighter Squadron, badly damaged outside a hanger; mechanics removing a damaged wing. Three men working in a mobile repair shop. A new wing is fitted to a FE2d of 20 Night Bomber Squadron outside a hangar. A posed group of members of 60 Squadron, left to right: Frank "Mongoose" Soden (with dog), Captain William A. "Billy" Bishop VC DSO MC, Keith "Grid" Caldwell, E.W. "Moley" Molesworth, Spencer "Nigger" Horn. Pan over a larger group of the squadron's pilots. (Bishop left the squadron at the end of August, when it was moved from Files camp Farm to Ste-Marie-Cappel, and this may still be Filescamp). An FE2d of the squadron are armed, bombed up with 20-pounder and 112-pounder bombs; the pilot and gunner board one plane and the flight of five takes off. A Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter of 45 Fighter Squadron is prepared for flight and the squadron takes off. One 1 1/2 Strutter is shown stunt flying. Two FE2ds come in to land at Ste-Marie-Cappel past a line of 1 1/2 Strutters. (This scene dates the film, as by 1 September 45 Squadron had been completely re-equipped with Sopwith Camels). <16mn>

Language:

Silent with English intertitles

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1. Description from the Imperial War Museum Catalogue Volume 1, IWM 141.~2. Assuming the 90-year rule, this title is under copyright until 2008.
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open

Consultation copy number:

V1 9801-0002

Restrictions on consultation:

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Donor restrictions:

The permission of the donor, IWM, is required to reproduce this material.

Copyright status:

Under copyright until 2008.

Copyright owner:

Original copyright owner: British government.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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