Royal Air Force Film Production Unit

The film director and WAAF continuity girl discuss the set-up of a shot in a scene at a railway station from "Journey Together" at No. 1 RAFFPU at RAF Stanmore Park, Middlesex

Hamburg in ruins, eyewitness photograph by a Royal Air Force official photographer

Royal Air Force Film Production Unit (typically abbreviated to the acronym RAFFPU) produced propaganda films depicting RAF personnel and aircraft both on the ground and in aerial action during World War II from 1941 to 1945. Personnel included early commander Flight Lieutenant John Boulting; later director Richard Attenborough flew camera missions over Europe.

See also

• Pinewood Studios

Further reading

• "The Royal Air Force film production unit, 1941–45" in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Volume 17, Issue 2, 1997

External links

• RAFFPU at IMDB
• "Welfare with its Finger Out" 1944
• Larry Thompson recalls his time in the RAF Film Unit