The Battle of Britain (1943): Army film frame

The Battle of Britain (1943), one Army film frame

A 1943 frame from the Army film The Battle of Britain, fourth in the orientation series. Public-domain US government work. The tombstone prints no NAID.

Techniques named on the archive record

Sleeper effect

Date

1943

Made by

U.S. Army (Frank Capra's 'Why We Fight' series)

Medium

Film stills

Country

United States

Regime

Roosevelt Administration

Source

Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are

Source

Wikimedia Commons , retrieved September 27, 2026

Source

Public domain (U.S. government work) U.S. Army, 'The Battle of Britain' (Why We Fight, 1943).

Object, image, and catalog record from the FRAME archive. Text on this page is CC BY 4.0. Image rights are as the archive records.

The Battle of Britain is a 1943 frame from the fourth film in the US Army orientation series associated with Frank Capra. The FRAME record gives the rights as a US government work in the public domain and does not print a NAID.

What the record holds

The snapshot holds one frame, dated 1943. The maker line names the U.S. Army and Frank Capra's orientation series, and it calls this the fourth film. The transcription field is empty. The series title printed on the catalog record is not the title of this page.

The essay that leads with the first film, and that does not take the series name as its heading, is Prelude to War (1942).

Issuer and rights

The rights line calls the frame a public-domain U.S. government work from the 1943 Army film, via Wikimedia Commons, retrieved by the archive on 27 September 2026. No NAID is printed on the tombstone. The picture on this page is that archive file.

Sources

FRAME object record, Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (film frame), 1943. U.S. Army. Wikimedia Commons, retrieved by the archive 27 September 2026. Rights as recorded: public domain (U.S. government work).