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Winning Your Wings

Item number (ISN):

326377

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1942

Item number (ISN):

326377

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

NATIONAL FILM BOARD OF CANADA / OFFICE NATIONAL DU FILM DU CANADA: NON NFB FILMS

Accession:

1979-0210

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1942

Production company:

Warner Bros. Pictures Inc.

Sponsor:

U.S. Army Air Forces

Description:

U.S. air force recruiting film. Hollywood actor James Stewart, who enlisted in 1941 and was training as a pilot when this film was made, encourages young men to join the Army Air Forces. He explains the qualities the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) are looking for in candidates. Also described are recruiting, special provisions to allow recruits to finish their education under a delayed enlistment program, how recruits are given their assignments, and the work of a B-17 flight crew and ground crew. Dramatized segments demonstrate how family members and friends will be proud of the men who succeed in becoming pilots. Footage shows students flying basic trainer planes. P-4O planes coming off an assembly line and B-17 aircraft flying in formation. <16mn 30s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Description by U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) of its copy of this film gives name of creator as Office for Emergency Management. Office of War Information. Overseas Operations Branch. New York Office. News and Features Bureau. ~2. For a detailed analysis of this film see the article "Imaging/Imagining Air Force Identity: "Hap" Arnold, Warner Bros., and the Formation of the USAAF First Motion Picture Unit," written by Douglas Cunningham and published in the journal The Moving Image, Spring 2005,Volume 5, Number 1, pp.95-124.~3. The U.S. Army Air Forces became the U.S. Air Force in 1947.

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Vault ISN:

359078

Format:

FILM

Location number:

7906-2111

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Max. shrinkage:

1.2%

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD579

Restrictions on consultation:

~No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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