Prime Minister’s Tour (1941)

Item title reads - Prime Minister’s tour. Coventry. The camera pans down the ruins of Coventry cathedral to Prime Minister Winston Churchill stood with the mayor and bishop, he walks through the ruins looking grim. The camera pans down church spire to Churchill walking along the street, people wave from behind lines of policemen. M/S of Churchill outside an aircraft factory meeting some of the men. M/S of test pilot Henshaw, holder of the London-Cape-London record, in a cockpit, he looks around at the camera. M/S of Churchill sat with wife Clementine watching the Spitfires flying overhead. The camera pans across Churchill in Air Commodore’s uniform with Fighter Squadron 615, for whom he is honorary Air Commodore. He looks at new Hurricane aeroplane with four cannons. 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
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