FILMING OUR WAR EFFORT
ALTHOUGH it is the Royal Navy that is usually called "the silent service," the Royal New Zealand Air Force also does a great deal of work without any benefit of publicity whatever. However, in the near future New Zealand picturegoers will probably be taken behind the scenes and given some interesting information about the R.N.Z.A.F. The Government film studios are preparing, under the direction of Squadron-Leader B. T. Sheil, a documentary film dealing with many aspects of Air Force work. Recently three. cameramen filmed a spectacular march past at Wigram Aerodrome in the presence of the GovernorGeneral, and later a complete record was made of "activities at the elementary flying school at Taieri Aerodrome, Dunedin, which is the most southern in the Empire. The sequence at Wigram was one of the most spectacular ever shot in this country, 50 machines taking part in a display that would have done credit to a Hollywood " air epic." The final sequences are being filmed at Ohakea, where the giant hangars form ‘an impressive background for shots ‘showing the training of air gunners and Reger tipi. and at Rongotai. It is anticipated that the film will be ‘teteied throughout the Empire.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 2
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