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First Light TV

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Original title

First Light

Year

2010

Running time

75 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Matthew Whiteman

Screenwriter

Matthew Whiteman, Caleb Ranson. Book: Geoffrey Wellum

Cast

Music

Gabriel Currington

Cinematography

Mark Wolf

Producer

Lion Television, Manray Media

Genre

Drama | Biography. 1940s. Planes. TV Movie

Synopsis

In May 1940 eighteen-year old Geoffrey Wellum joins the 92 squadron of the Royal Air Force and is taken to the pub, where pilots who have seen action sign their names on a blackboard. Next day, with no flying experience, he is expected to pilot a Spitfire; he is nervous but exhilarated. Soon he is seeing action against the Luftwaffe, his sense of duty dispelling fear, and, having taken part in the Battle of Britain, is awarded a medal, though he never signs the blackboard. By 1941 he has flown fifty missions and feels invincible, though he sees friends die and in 1942 the stress causes him to have a breakdown. However he survives the war and,in the present, talks direct to camera,voicing his feelings about his service experiences.

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