Royal Air Force Recruits Wanted (1938)

Titles read: “ROYAL AIR FORCE RECRUITS WANTED“. Location of events unknown - probably London. Sir Kingsley Wood, the new Air Minister, sits at a desk and makes a speech encouraging men to join the RAF. He says during this year they need 31,000 men as pilots, air observers, airmen, skilled craftsmen and unskilled men willing to learn a trade within the RAF (presumably as mechanics). Brief shots of pilots and factory workers. He invites men to make their applications immediately. Cataloguer’s note: the RAF received 1,000 enquiries on the first day of this new recruitment campaign. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News