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Object description
British artist served as officer with Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force in GB, Western Front and Middle East, 1916-1919
Content description
REEL 1 Recollections of period as officer with Royal Flying Corps and Royal Air Force in GB, Western Front and Middle East, 1916-1919: transfer from Middlesex Regt and commissing into Royal Flying Corps, 9/1916; training as observer and wireless operator; reasons for training in camouflage; memories of artist Percyval Tudor-Hart and system of camouflage; experiments in camouflaging aircraft in New Forest and at Royal Flying Corps Station Brooklands Aerodrome; posting to Tank Corps Depot at Bovington Camp for experiments in tank camouflage, 1917; memories of camouflaged sniper's uniform held in Imperial War Museum; opinion of effectiveness of camouflage experiments; role with Air Ministry during Second World War camouflaging aerodromes and buildings; differences in camouflage techniques in First and Second World Wars.
REEL 2 Continues: transfer to Winchester to paint aerial targets; work painting simulation of Vimy Ridge positions for practice aerial attacks; reasons for Imperial War Museum commission for paintings and advising museum on starting art collection; consideration of work of brother Sydney Carline; attitude to role as war artist; posting to Nieuport, Belgium to begin series of Western Front paintings, summer 1918; observations of aerial warfare and drawing in aircraft.
REEL 3 Continues: description of working conditions; problems of drawing in aircraft and reasons for flying in Royal Aircraft Factory R.E.8; description of altered perspectives in air and effect on work; criticism of aerial paintings from other artists; attitude to use of colour in own and brother's Sydney Carline's work; attitude to role as war artist and reaction of fellow officers to work.
REEL 4 Continues: critical reaction to aerial works shown at exhibitions; attitude to composition and particular problems of depicting aircraft and aerial warfare; differences between First World War and modern aircraft; description of painting from air in Middle East, including particular qualities of buildings and landscape.
REEL 5 Continues: memories of working in Middle East and India; description of painting of Lens seen from the air; further discussion of brother's Sydney Carline's work on Italian Front; problem of completing paintings; participating in aerial operations during Kurdish Uprising in Iraq; nature of collaboration with brother Sydney Carline.
