i was interested to see that someone ‘editing’ the recent bbc tv programme on the belfast blitz failed to recognize that one of the types of a/c blitzing belfast was actually stock footage of the AVRO LANCASTER ………..
a pity – it was actually quite a good documentary !
By: roadracer - 27th April 2011 at 10:58
good way of sorting out the IRA I guess..:eek:
You think ?????
By: jettisoning - 26th April 2011 at 18:13
lancasters over belfast
reading the bbc i-player notes about this programme there is reference to it being : ‘accompanied by state-of-the-art map graphics’ .
clearly time and effort was put into the preparation of this documentary – i wonder why the producers allowed slipshod film material to appear – can it be they weren’t bothered – or weren’t aware ………… ?
By: Arabella-Cox - 26th April 2011 at 14:10
It’ll be the same renegade bunch of Lancaster Squadrons which were spotted bombing Sheffield in another BBC “Blitz” production a few months ago.
Good job kids aren’t taught much about WWII history these days or they’d just end up getting confused by it all.
By: oscar duck - 26th April 2011 at 13:59
good way of sorting out the IRA I guess..:eek:
By: PaulR - 26th April 2011 at 11:52
Watched that myself and also noticed the RAF’s treachery in bombing its own people. Plus the early He111s. Wasn’t impressed.
By: roadracer - 25th April 2011 at 20:33
Saw the programme and while disappointed at some of the mistakes made have to say it was very powerfull.
By: jettisoning - 25th April 2011 at 17:51
belfast blitz
yes – examples of this kind of thing occur regularly ! out of all the footage that must be available i’m quite surprised by these errors . screen shot of one of the lancaster bloopers attached !
By: J Boyle - 25th April 2011 at 17:47
The other day I was watching a documentary biography on President Harry Truman.
When they were talking about the post-war/cold war rearmament efforts, (which he was initally against) did they use shots of the B-36? (Which would have been correct in the context of the carrier vs. bomber controversy).
No.
They showed B-17s…several times intercut with film of him watching a fly past somewhere. But they were brand new and far shinier than I’d ever seen.
A few seconds later they had film of a B-36, B-29, B-17 and A-26 in formation…an interesting shot.
By: Short finals - 25th April 2011 at 17:35
Yes, noticed that, together with some shots of early He111s with the stepped windscreen, and a formation of some other unidentifiable aircraft but which did not look like any Luftwaffe type I recognise. The Lancaster footage appeared a number of times in the programme and was so clear that it should surely have been “caught” before transmission.
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