battle of britain on 4 atm...

[Y282]

some lovely footage.

[Defcon5]

Just started watching this.

'Like shooting rats in a barrell!'

[Oily Nails]

Awaiting the Poles

Is it wrong that thanks to PH I now hear "Repost please.." instead of "Repeat Please.."

[Negative Creep]

Lovely air sequences and great attention to detail, although the bits on the ground arent very engaging if I'm honest.


I wouldn't normally say this, but in the right hands a modern cgi remake would be very interesting.....

[Eric Mc]

I love the film but it is severely let down by the complete non-attention to women's hairstyles and make-up. All the ladies look very 1968, rather than 1940.

Other than that, it's great.

[chris watton]

Eric Mc said:

I love the film but it is severely let down by the complete non-attention to women's hairstyles and make-up. All the ladies look very 1968, rather than 1940.

Other than that, it's great.

..And the air battles would have looked a lot better if there had been tracer fire....

[Eric Mc]

chris watton said:

Eric Mc said:

I love the film but it is severely let down by the complete non-attention to women's hairstyles and make-up. All the ladies look very 1968, rather than 1940.

Other than that, it's great.

..And the air battles would have looked a lot better if there had been tracer fire....

And if they had taken the planes over 20,000 feet so there had been some vapour trails - which were a very obvious sign of the air battles that summer.

I'm sure filming and camera ship restrictions made sure most of the air to air was 10,000 feet or lower.

[Mr_B]

Nice picture, Eric. Interesting they recreated that exact picture in the film.

Love this film, thankfully they kept to a minimum the love story in it and at least made use of it to kinda tell the guinea pig club story.

Perhaps the best bit for me is the ending. I think the scene where Dowding walks out of the HQ , the music starts, camera pans skyward and it then lists the casualties on both sides, plus of course, the famous Churchill qoute.

[Eric Mc]

A while ago the BBC showed a clip of COLOUR home movie footage shot by a doctor from his London garden during the Battle. You can see a "schwarm" of German fighters as dots pulling vapour trails flying in a fairly straight line. Curving around and down onto their tails is a flight of six Spitfires - also pulling curved vapour trails in their wake. It is an incredible piece of film and as far as is known, is the only colour footage of the actual battle in the skies.