ROYAL AIR FORCE

Evening Post, Issue 20, 23 July 1935, Page 9

ROYAL AIR FORCE

A REMARKABLE FILM

JEAN BATTEN PRELUDE

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, June 29.

A very fine film illustrating the life of officers and men in the Royal Air Force is on view at the Polytechnic Theatre. As a prelude there are pictures showing Miss Jean Batten arriving at Port Darwin and at Sydney, and Miss Batten appears on the stage in spotless flying suit, telling some of her experiences on her several flights. She relates the incidents of her first two unsuccessful attempts to fly to Australia, and then tells the story of her successful flight and her trying experience in the monsoonal rains, and her anxious eight hours across the Timor Sea. Miss Batten appears on the platform three times- a day.

If the Government is seeking to attract suitable young men to the ranks of the Royal Air Force by means of the excellent film which, follows, it makes it quite plain that no loose-livers or slackers can hold their own when they join up. ■ The picture is a truthful presentation, and if it inspires a lad to join up as an officer or in the ranks he will do it knowing well that his life, though interesting, will be a vigorous one, and one in which he will have to give of his very best.

The special interest of the picture lies in the fact that the spectator sees the'manoeuvres of the Air Force ai though he were taking part in the manoeuvres himself. The photographs of the aeroplanes in flight are taken from an aeroplane advantageously placed on, the flank of the squadrons, or above or below.