It looks as if this video clip is not available online yet.
Use the enquiry button on the right and we’ll get back to you to discuss the quickest way for you to view it.
The film is based around a series of interviews and voice overs from unnamed British people who have discovered by various means that they were fathered by American servicemen stationed in Britain during World War 2.
These interview segments are cut with many stylised film clips combining colour archive shots of the American air force (probably US National Archives) with material from the 1979 MGM feature film 'Yanks', modern recreations and extensive stills.
The interviews and recreations include a man who remembers being called yank in a derogatory sense, a woman who found letters and a man who after a fruitless search through the American embassy eventually found a photograph of his father on a set of divorce papers.
We also see heavily stylised shots of a woman driving to a disused air base.
The interviewees stress the difficulties they have had in tracking down their fathers. At the end of the film a woman is shown (her anonymity is protected) and a voice over says that she was fathered by an American air force man based at Chelveston (in Northamptonshire) in the 1960s therefore implying that the story is continuing.
Central wishes to thank:
Birmingham City Council
Birmingham Public Library
Pathe Film Library
US National Film Archive
Kitchen Sisters
MGM
Special thanks:
100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum, Diss, Norfolk
Production Assistants: Anne Wilson, Val Nieberle
Researcher: Jane Ades
Sound Recordist: Bill Dodkin
Dubbing Mixer: Robin Ward
Rostrum Camera: Jay Holloway
Key Grip: John Robertson
Cameraman: Peter Greenhalgh
Film Editor: Paul Brown
Executive Producer: Brian Lewis
Producer: Malcolm Frazer
Directed by Andrew Piddington
PN 7308/86. Broadcast under the 'Central Week' umbrella title.