Wings Of Tomorrow

1940

Cat no. 4277

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Documentary about the Air Training Corps.

Documentary film of the Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch Wing of the Air Training Corps ,produced under the auspices of the Air Ministry. A young man works in a grocer's shop and wraps up slices of bacon in a newspaper telling of Hitler's victories. He cuts out a piece about the ATC. With friends he goes to the cinema (the Moderne) to see 'Week-End in Havana' (1941) and in the foyer signs up for the ATC as a flight mechanic. Shows various aspects of the training course; the film concludes with a big military parade.

Keywords

Air Training Corps; Aircraft; Military parades; World War II

Director : D. Shaw Ashton
- Name: AUTH2100
- Activity: director
- Source Note: Credit Source (data migration 25/06/2021) onscreen credits
- Text: D. Shaw Ashton
Distributor : Institute of Amateur Cinematographers

Award:
- Group 1:
  - Note: Awards (data migration 25/06/2021): Awarded Daily Mail Trophy in 1946. [1975 listing]

Category: Non-fiction
Genre: Amateur / Documentary / Military / Wartime
Work Type: Film
Description Type: monographic
Related to: IAC
Subject: military parades / Air Training Corps / cinema-going

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