NFB Collection
Wings of Youth
194019 minFilm: Documentary
Direction: Raymond Spottiswoode
Production: Stuart Legg
Script: Graham McInnes
Co-produced by the NFB and Audi-Pictures Limited.
There was a time when bomb, fire and poison gas were ominous words in Britain. Thousands of fliers a year were Canada's answer to the threat of warfare against women and children. This film shows Canada in the process of constructing the airfields, machines and equipment required for the Commonwealth Air Training Scheme.
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Subject categories
- National Security and Defence > Air Force ProgramsArmed Forces Programs and OperationsArmy Programs and Operations
- War, Conflict and Peace - World War II Archival Films > Allied Military ForcesAllied Military OperationsHome Front
- History - Canada - 1920-1945 > Allies and Allied ForcesCanadian War EffortWorld War IIWorld War II Military Operations
- Foreign Countries > Commonwealth and British Colonies
- Transportation > Military Aircraft and Airfields
Credits
- director
- Raymond Spottiswoode
- producer
- Stuart Legg
- script
- Graham McInnes
- camera
- Roger Barlow
- narrator
- Lorne Greene
- music
- Lucio Agostini