WWII - 1944 ca, Canada Manufacturing: AVRO Lancaster & Bombing Missions (Target Berlin)

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk WWII - 1944 ca, Canada Manufacturing: AVRO Lancaster & Bombing Missions Animated titles. Head of Canadian aircraft plant in office, secretary reads radiogram over intercom - “Three Canadian productions - AVRO Lancaster bombers - confirmation effective as from today”. Factory floor w/ male & female workers spreading news about order for new bombers. Cargo trains bring supplies to plant. Plant chief on telephone re large number of parts & tools demanded by Lancaster. Parts arriving at factory. Engineers around table; examine bomber plans on microfilm over lamp. Foreman asking for more tool makers. 01:31:07 Bus pulls up outside factory, civilian workers into recruitment office to sign up for training. Production line scenes - fuselage assembly - overhead tracking over aircraft under construction - wings & engines joined. Women check glass in tail turret; view up into bomb bay; armored seat assembly. Production number KB700 assigned & RAF insignia. Top shot pan along almost complete bomber. 01:34:18 RAF bomber crew flown in from England inspect progress - talk to workers. Party at plant - bagpipers. MLS Lancaster rolls out of hanger - ‘VICTORY’ in large letter above - along runway - top shot workers crowd around plane. RAF crew in flight gear board plane w/ Canadian puppy; INT crew in cabin & cockpit - radio contact - “chocks away” - VS take off - AVs Ontario countryside & Atlantic - voices of crew joking over radio. 01:38:00 Aerials as bombers descend thru clouds over English countryside, landing gear down. PoV landing. Crew out of bomber, welcomed by senior officer & Canadian High Commissioner. Sir Stafford Cripps, Minister of Aircraft Production, statement re first Lancaster bomber produced by Canadians. VS Canadian Lancaster squadron briefing re mission to Berlin; crews into planes at dusk - silhouette - voices of crew heard - pan across bombers on airfield - planes taxiing - ground crew signaling. 01:41:17 Canadian aircraft plant workers in canteen listening to radio broadcast re 1000 Allied bombers over Berlin - German radio off the air - Lancaster bomber they built involved in mission - “why that’s our baby” - workers on production line spread the news. INT bomber cabin at night - voices over radio - AVs Berlin during night bombing raid. CU bomb release trigger - bombs away. 01:44:38 Gen. Eisenhower’s deputy to camera re “American production genius” - need for machines to support war effort - 5th War Loan. WW2; Military Aviation; AVRO; RAF; Patriotism; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk