page_title: Coastal Command (film)
section_title: Production
hierarchical_section_title: Coastal Command (film) / Production
caption_attribution_description: English: Coastal Command- the Production of a Ministry of Information Film at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK, March 1942 A production scene from 'Coastal Command', a film made by the Crown Film Unit at the New Studios, Pinewood, at Iver Heath in Buckinghamshire. This scene features an audience awaiting the beginning of an RAF 'Gang Show' in a Hebridean Village Hall. The edge of the set is clearly visible, as is the lighting gantry at the top of picture. Members of the production crew can be seen in the left background, and in the centre background, the camera operators can be seen, executing a tracking shot along the side of the audience.
context_page_description: Coastal Command is a 1943 British film made by the Crown Film Unit for the Ministry of Information. The film, distributed by RKO, dramatised the work of RAF Coastal Command.
  Coastal Command is a documentary-style account of the Short Sunderland and Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats during the Battle of the Atlantic. The film includes real footage of attacks on a major enemy ship by Hudson and Beaufort bombers based in Iceland.
context_section_description: Coastal Command was made under the supervision of Ian Dalrymple, with the full cooperation of the Royal Air Force and the Royal Navy in the Second world War. The participants in the film were active RAF officers, NCOs and aircrew, and RN officers. The film featured Wing Commander Johnny Hyde (RAF officer) DFC in the lead role, pilot Roger Hunter, and Flight Sergeant Charles Norman Lewis. Johnny Hyde (RAF officer) was killed in action over Norway on 29 April 1942. On 25 August 1942, Lewis was killed on a flight that Prince George, Duke of Kent was undertaking as a morale-boosting mission to Iceland.
  Filming for Coastal Command took place at Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire where an RAF Operations Room set was constructed for the Ministry of Information. Location photography also took place at RAF Bowmore and RAF Port Ellen, Glenegedale, Isle of Islay, Argyll Scotland, where Short Sunderland units were operating.
  Coastal Command is notable for its score by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
caption: A production scene from Coastal Command.
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