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Amateur film shot by Czechoslovak pilot Lieutenant Josef Hybler, while serving in RAF 310 Squadron, records off-duty scenes in the English countryside, often in female company.
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Reel 1: Family scenes. Child playing in garden. A visit to London. Westminster Bridge. Houses of Parliament. Buckingham Palace. Off duty scenes at RAF St Athan, Scotland. Airmen with car, registration number BXW 67. Bristol Beaufighter on airfield apron. Brief shot of bi-plane, possibly a Tiger Moth. Airmen pore over road map. Scenes at RAF Coltishall. Post war scenes. Picking field mushrooms. Street scenes. Cliff railway. Afternoon tea.
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Reel 2: Travelling through Scotland first by train, then by car. Distant shot of soldiers marching through countryside. Travelling by car to Kemnay House, home to the Burnett family. Two women walking across field. Woman sat on seat (possibly Muriel Burnett, wife of the 8th Laird of Kemnay, Arthur Moubray Burnett). Gentlemen in shooting attire. Baby in pram. Cat stealing milk from jug on doorstep. Inside Kemnay House. Lady (Muriel Burnett?) lights a cigarette. Walking through the woods. Three women in garden swapping hats. Airman (possibly Josef Hybler) walks along driveway from house, accompanied by three women. Airman leaps over gate and smiles at the camera. Scenes on the road. Back at Kemnay House. Burnett family and various airmen lining up for the camera. Dogs running through field. Woman climbs into car, registration number AAV 999. Leaving Kemnay House. Arriving at large grand property, quite possibly Crathes Castle, owned at the time by the Burnett family. Goats and ponies in the grounds. Views of house. Sunset. Two women in fur coats. Soldiers from a Scottish regiment crossing bridge. Impromptu shooting range. Burnett family picnic. Walking through walled gardens. Foxgloves. Children playing in garden.
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Reel 3: Two women emerge from car, one wearing an RAF issue cap. Woman climbing tree in woods. Scenes in and around Portreath, Cornwall. Woman playing with dog. Airman (Josef Hybler?) on bicycle. Woman clambering over rocks. Barbed wire and other anti tank measures on the beach (possibly Perranporth). Woman changes into swimming costume and runs into the sea. Pushing bicycles up the hill from the beach. Woman undresses in the undergrowth. Dips toes in the water. Picnic. Children in swimming costumes. Two women undress on the beach. Naked woman in river.
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Reel 4: Woman walking through woodland. Sheep. Down by the river. A visit to the Zoo (location unknown). Grizzly bears, polar bears, wolves and emperor penguins. Beach scenes. Scottish scenery.
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Reel 5: Performance by local actors of the William Shakespeare play 'Macbeth' at Kemnay House. Travelling by car. Picnic by the river. Back to Kemnay House.
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Reel 6: Scenes at Eshott Airfield, Northumberland, home to No.57 OTU RAF from 1939 to 1944. Scenes inside and out of Nissen hut. Airmen relaxing. A WAAF peeps out of a doorway. Two seater Spitfire taxiing on airfield. Airman on motorbike. In the grounds of Kemnay House. Older soldiers in Scottish uniform.
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Reel 7: Dog show at Doncaster, circa 1940.
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Reel 8: Josef Hybler visits the Imperial War Museum at Duxford circa the summer of 1980, accompanied by other Czech former pilots who were based at Duxford during the Second World War. The group pass the Duxford Aviation Society's recently acquired Vickers Super VC10, G-ASGC, in British Airways markings, prior to being repainted in the aircraft's original BOAC colour scheme. BAC Concorde G-AXDN. Enjoying a cup of tea outside one of the hangars. Laying wreaths in cemetery.
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Reel 9: Travelling by train. Family scenes [This reel is very poor quality picture wise].
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8mm