RAF Farnborough.

Date:
[between 1940 and 1949]
  • Film

About this work

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 film reel (10:24 mins) : sound, black and white; 16mm.

Notes

Part of 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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