RAF Farnborough.

Date:
[between 1940 and 1949]
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Description

Opening intertitle; 'Method of Use'; this training film was made during WWII and is about the operation of different gauges in an aircraft. It shows in detail how a bomber would take readings and hit the target. Finally of note, a British Allies target graphic with 'The End' superimposed.

Publication/Creation

[Place of publication not identified], s.n.], [between 1940 and 1949]

Physical description

1 Digibeta (10:24 mins) : sound, black and white; PAL.
1 VHS (10:24 mins) : sound, black and white; PAL.
1 DVD (10:24 mins) : sound, black and white; PAL.

Notes

Conservation and access copies made from the film collection comprising of 55 items donated by Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, Oxford, to the Wellcome Trust in 2008. In 1937, Lord Nuffield established a clinical chair of anaesthesia in Oxford amidst some controversy that anaesthesia was even an academic discipline. The collection is a mixture of clinical and educational films made or held by the department to supplement their teaching dating from the late 1930s onwards.
No bio-medical content, although the gauges are similar to those used in anaesthetic equipment and so this film could show the war-time output of a factory which normally makes medical equipment. Lord Nuffield owned a motorcar manufacturing empire at the time.

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Nuffield

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    4162S

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    4162D

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