British Film Shows Fleet Air Arm Activities

Dominion, Volume 34, Issue 286, 30 August 1941, Page 5

British Film Shows Fleet Air Arm Activities

“CHIPS WITH WINGS,” which traces the rise of the Fleet Air Arm and the part it is playing in the war, has the makings of one of the best British jiroductions of the year. Much advance work was done, in cooperation with the Admiralty. Roy Kellino, a cameraman, making a 17,000mile location trip with an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean. .“When I went to the Ealing Studios to see how Michael Balcon was getting on with this picture, I expected to come among aeroplanes and many actors in naval uniforms,” remarks an English writer. “Instead I found myself in an elegant night-club, with fluted white walls, a white piano, glamorous girls in.evening dress, and a number of young men in .white ties and tails—a glimpse of a strange old world whicn existed when Hitler was only a joke. “At one table sat John Clements, slim add well groomed, telling Ann Todd, in shimmering silver, that he was going to forsake her because be had fallen in love with the Admiral’s daughter. You probably remember Ann as the Squire’s mad wife in ‘South Riding.’ She and Jane Baxter, who plays the Admiral’s daughter, make welcome returns to the screen in this film.”