Spitfire Girls 1940 | Britain's Rosie the Riveter | AI Enhanced Film [60 fps]
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- Опубликовано: 3 апр 2021
- Unsung young heroines of the Battle of Britain, who helped build the iconic RAF Spitfire.
AI enhanced film originally made in 1940/41
Possibly filmed at Castle Bromwich, where the Vickers-Armstrong company manufactured thousands of Spitfires during WW2. The film begins with trainees on a work break, followed by footage of Spitfire assembly. The film ends with a brand new Spitfire being towed out of a hanger.
During the Battle of Britain, after a concerted series of raids on the main Spitfire plant in Southhampton by the German Luftwaffe, production had to be dispersed to 'secret' facilities around the country. Many of these women worked in these facilities. They were informed by the Air Ministry that they had to keep it secret. They did, until very recently.
Women pilots of the Air Transport Auxiliary were tasked with their delivery as well as more dangerous non combat missions later in the war.
Original BW Footage courtesy of the Imperial War Museum
Available under the IWM Non-Commercial Creative Commons License
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ROYAL AIR FORCE SCENES
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AI Enhanced by Glamourdaze :
1. Removed artifacts and noise.
2. Interpolated new frames ( from 24 to 60fps) using the DainApp, to add depth awareness
3. Upscaled the original 480p film to 4K resolution using Topaz Video Enhance AI.
4. Added color using Deoldify
5. Created a soundtrack for the (originally) silent footage. 
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My mother did that job during the war. About 20 years ago suffering from severe arthritis in her right shoulder she went for a consultation for a replacement shoulder joint. On seeing her xrays the surgeon said that he only ever saw that degree of damage in heavy manual labourers' shoulders and asked her if she ever did that sort of work. After a bit of thought she said "Well I did rivit Lancasters during the war." She received royal treatment after that.
Good because she earned and deserved it.
I love this! 😍
The coolest reply ever!!!! Cheers 🥂
@@jenniferjohnston4403 Thanks for that. Mum didn't talk much about the war work but after she got her new shoulder (it was a great success by the way and gave her another decade of pain free life) she told me about one day when she was up a scaffold tower riveting the tail of a Halifax bomber which was pretty large. Her workmate, a bloke called Tom was holding the dolly on the other side against which the rivet is flattened. Its a pretty brutal job and incredibly noisy and all of a sudden there was no resistance to the riveting gun on the other side. The force of the gun had knocked him off his perch and he lay spread-eagled on the floor below. Luckily for him he landed on a pile of cardboard boxes, needless to say the air was blue when he recovered his senses but then the girls had heared it all before. The factory, which was in Accrington and manufactured textile machinery, was converted to aircraft production during the war. Its roof was camouflaged to look like parkland, complete with playground and boating lake. The Germans made a number of recce flights over the district but never spotted it She also worked for a while in the Royal Ordnance Factory in Blackburn again riveting artillery armour plating.
God bless her!!!
Every woman there was so beautiful and classy looking even in their uniforms. How nice to see it in color
Exactly
They also looked very healthy.
@@DeBee-dc9ce, Britons were never as fit and healthy as during rationing! My late grandmother was a progress-chaser for Vickers Supermarine during the war, these are scenes she would have witnessed every day.
@light yagami no I disagree, they used to wear clothes like a normal person
@@Bone_Thug heavy make up, plastic surgery, appropriate clothes, cosmetics are highly used by women nowadays but back in the past life was just as simple the way they wear.
The two ladies at the end watching the plane leave must have thought”I made that!”.
Spitfires made by Spitfires. Beautiful AND knows how to make a plane.
They deserve much respect.
Mildred - I think I forgot to tighten the flight control cable nut before they closed up!! Let’s go to chapel….
And flown to an air base by the ladies in the A.T.A
British women stepping up to the mark, the men were off fighting but the country was in good hands, so proud of those ladies, God bless them all.
My grandmothers sister would often talk about doing this she did this for a job in ww2 this made me quite emotional but great to see this thank you! ❤
My grandmother was one of these girls. She was only 16 but like so many others desperate to help the war effort, lied about her age. A male cousin (Donald) would fly the planes from the factories to the airfields and before long, he was not only taking her flying with him, but teaching her how to do it too. She started flying by herself and thought it was great fun flying the planes to their destinations (she wasn't the only girl doing this either).
But things got too real when a couple of her friends got shot down in quick succession while delivering planes and died. Suddenly ddenly the fun and games were over; she knew she was in over her head (and scared) but she didn't know how to get help. But the whole time her mum & dad were obvious to what she had really been up to and when she told her father she had been flying planes, apparently he was furious beyond words; my grandmother was his only child and he couldn't believe the insane risks she had been taking (and all the lies she had told him in the process).
My family had a strong medical history background (a fair number of doctors, surgeons and nurses going back generations) so my great grandfather used his connections to get my grandmother's job changed from the spitfire factory to working as a nurse at a war hospital (Netley, England). The nurse job was remarkably safer but psychologically very intense work as the hospital specialised in treating the worst injured victims of the war (think people like pilots with terrible facial injuries from extreme burns).
Helping rehabilitate the men, my grandmother would try to get them out from the hospital from time to time and take them to local pubs in the area. But many of these terribly injured men were a shocking sight to civilians see and one of the hardest things for the young men was experiencing being treated differently because of how they now looked. So before they got into the pub my grandmother would secretly run ahead to inform everyone in the that a bunch of men with shocking injuries were about to enter the pub and she would tell everyone to not stare at the men, whisper or pass any comment about their appearance at all (or else!). This way, when the men entered the pub for the first time, they were treated normally by everyone. And this meant the whole world to them.
@@maywalker997 They are all at peace now. RIP
@@maywalker997 God bless your Grandmother. I'm sixty. Its hard to believe that I lived amongst such brave people as her right into adulthood but I did. They were just people - family members, neighbours, teachers, the bread man, my Scout leader - all had done something so far removed from ordinary life.
@@maywalker997
What a remarkable woman your grandmother was. You should be very proud of her.
@@maywalker997 Wow!!! What a woman!!! Her blood flows in you!!!
It's hard to believe they have this perfect hairstyles everyday at work :D
Well, camera probably doesn't show all the fuzzy hair, but yeah, it's very impressive :v
My aunt worked in a factory. Not Spitfires but Blenheims (I think.) It was long hours of hard unrelenting shift work (though well paid by the standards of the day) and the contribution by women in factories during WW2 proved to be beyond measure.
She was smuggled on board an aircraft by a dashing young RAF pilot (she'd helped build so many aircraft but never flown.) They'd both have been in very serious trouble had they been discovered. He proposed in the air and she accepted, and they were quietly married within a few weeks. The morning after the wedding, he was on his way overseas. Just before the millennium, they both passed away within two years of each other, having celebrated their Golden Wedding Anniversary.
Well, this is the day they knew they'd be a camera crew at work 😉
@@jackywhite880 Wow, thank's for sharing this beautiful story!
It's back when people took more pride in their appearance. It wasn't acceptable to turn up to work looking like a bag of hammered shite.
The Greatest Generation. Their all so pretty, and classy looking.
The Silent Generation.
Marilyn Monroe once worked in such a place before she was „found”, amazing
My aunt built planes during WW2. She also worked on a three-woman mobile barrage balloon at the start of the war but they stopped using them as the bombers were too high. Imagine, she had to bring the thing out in an air raid and winch it up to try and stop the German bombers. My dad was a little younger and was evacuated after a bomb hit their street in Bramley, Leeds.
Oh, my good Lord, I can't imagine....
@@mimiduquette8786 - I just found this great image. I'd never looked one up until now and had to imagine what she meant when she told me about it. She said there was a truck and with a giant winch on the back with a barrage balloon attached and she had to drive it out during an air-raid and winch it up while the bombs were falling.
This is a great image and you can see how small the truck are compared to the balloons in the background and the brave women teams. She said it was one to drive and two to winch up the balloon if I remember correctly.
I says they worked here but she told me that they stopped doing it as the bombers over northern cities were too high for the barrage balloons to have any effect and they were filled with hydrogen and ended up falling to the ground on fire with massive steal cables attached causing more damage.
www.findmypast.co.uk/1939register/barrage-balloons
@@AnyoneCanSee Yikes!
@@AnyoneCanSee
I'm old enough to remember quite a few stories from aunts and uncles. Not all in active service, but without exception deeply involved in the war.
I remain astonished at the work done by women - judging by old family photos, often very young and attractive women. Work that would probably kill a modern young male within a week.
My aunt, who worked in an aircraft factory, was quite a dazzler in her 20s. But even much later in her life, I'd have thought twice about picking a fight with her.
Heroes!
I never manage to look that glamorous, even with loads of work!
You've either got or you haven't.
Its not just about how you look, it's how you FEEL. If you feel glamorous, then you are glamorous! Chin up, girl, you've got all the right stuff! Hold yourself with confidence!
You look great! 😎
If any of them were 20 years old at the end of the war they would be 95 now. What a wonderful thing it would be for some of their families to recognise them now in our modern world.
My grandmother was one of these women and passed away age 95 in 2019. I respected her so much (she was a wonderful and deeply admirable woman in so many ways) and I talked to her a lot about the war, but she did not want any attention for her war efforts for she felt the real praise should go towards those who lost their lives in the war.
Now these were real badasses! So much respect for everything these people went through. The absolute devastation and still found a way.
What an amazing difference having faith and pride in your nation and your fellow woman, with a solid hope in your future and theirs can make for even the countenances of such people!
I think this film should be shown in schools to enlighten our children of what England was and the values we protected.
@@garypautard1069 You mean the British Empire?
I wish I could time travel to 40’s just to hangout with such wonderful ladies 😂
how do you know they were wonderful?
@@tc1817 We can see what they were doing and it was wonderful.
@@trevorhoward2254 Just because they were working in assembly plants and factories doesn't make them wonderful.
You'd prefer to live during WW2? You wouldn't hang out with the ladies, you'd be doing less enjoyable stuff than that.
My aunt was repeatedly raped while working on a RAF base in Lincolnshire. Would be interesting to DNA test my cousins to find out the name of the brave pilot engaged in the ‘gang-bang’ that night.
I love these enhanced old films. They look like they were shot yesterday. It's like being there. Thanks.
I love how they languidly walk arm in arm.
My mum worked at the Avro factory in Leeds in WW2. She was a riveter and she worked on the Lancaster Bombers, fastening the outer skins onto the fuselage. She said it was the best job she ever had, she loved it. The money was very good too.
Hair looks amazing! These are amazing women!
My mother worked on the Boeing B-29 line at Renton Washington during the war. She too had memories of pride, joining all the young woman workers watching the newly built aircraft being roll out of the assembly facility for the first time.
So much nostalgic.. These ladies became wives.. Mothers.. Grandmas and ultimately no more in this world.. But what a nice way to bring back the past so vividly.. Very nice.. I cannot understand how someone could dislike this video presentation... There are really serious half brain people in this world..
These women knew that the quality of their work mattered, that it might be the difference between life and death for the pilot.
Supermarine Spitfires were indeed Special! Designed , engineered & put together by Classy People! 🕯🌷🌿
My grandmother was a rivet girl for ww2. She was beautiful just like these girls
Man!! Wow!! They are amazingly beautiful. Im speechless. Those English accents. 😍😍😍
This was amazing to watch. How anyone can 'dislike' it is beyond me. What a bunch of heroes.
Those two women at the front are sooooo *beautiful!* Stunningly good-looking!
Their country was at war and yet they look like they haven't got a care in the world!
It's not for nothing that people in this era are called "the greatest generation".
This is wonderful! Never did a production line look so glamorous.
However, this looks contrived. I say that because my mother worked for DeHavillands at Stag Lane during the war. She said all the girls on production were required to wear their hair up in a "Snood", which was a sort of cloth tie-up, to prevent their hair from getting caught up in machinery or power tools. This requirement was rigorously enforced.
a time when the workers of this country were valued and felt respected not like now
I used to do this work while in the Air Force, called "airframe repairmen." Wonderful to see these women doing this work. Grateful for their service! Also profound to see these women working which was really the beginning of the women's movement.
My late aunty was an anti-aircraft gunner in Newport. S. Wales.
A close friend's mother (who I spoke with on one or two occasions) gained her Hero of the Soviet Union medal in combat at Leningrad.
The hair, figures- it’s amazing!!
I think this is the best one yet. The audio is so spot-on... almost like you can hear them all singing... like they might have down at the pub after a day in the hangar... so fabulous. Thank you.
Has anyone seen the footage of Queen Elizabeth working on engines during WW2? I know not everyone loves the monarchy, but I think Queen Elizabeth is pretty badass 👍👏🏻
The monarchy is badass! Problem is too many people do not know much about history. So make a lot of assumptions😕
@@munix9351 that’s so true. Americans ( I’m American) often forget that people born from royal bloodlines have a duty, first and foremost. When has the Queen NOT been dutiful??? She’s an absolutely AMAZING woman, unlike certain American celebrities who marry into the family, not realizing that being dutiful is paramount. Nice chat, have a great day and Happy Easter ✋🏻
From the US. The Queen Mother is needed by all of the West when she is needed. Other times she is ignored.
@@munix9351 Republicanism, and lethally bad and irresponsible historians, have painted a distorted and inaccurate picture of the Monarchy. Monarchies remain on the world's stage because their longevity as an institution is based on the nucleus of society itself; the family. And like the traditional family unit, monarchies have taken many hits, but continue to endure. Many have been around for centuries, like the case in Japan. How many republics can lay down a similar claim? Queen Elizabeth II, is England's longest reigning Monarch, and criticize and denigrate her all one wants. She has never relinquished, neglected, nor belittle her office and her regal stature. She has been and still is every inch a Queen. God save the Queen!
@@munix9351 😅 absolutely ridiculous comment!
pick up a history book that covers how monarchies came to be! 🤦🏻♂️
Appreciated lizzy is after the fact 👍 I met her sister Margret at a royal garden party for Veterans, lovely lady, I met her Husband at Stonehouse Barracks in 2000 ( I think it was 2000 anyway ) he was very charismatic and incredibly funny, he was himself & I respected that 😎
Amazing footage and quality, really fascinating to watch - thank you 🌷🌷🌷🌷
Great job enhancing this film GlamourDaze :) It's so nice to see how even at work, these hard working women were well put together; Hair done, proper clothes...
No tatts,no fillers, just class and best of British.
Wonderful women! They never complained, just got on with the job!
100% correct, these women knew how to get on with it, and take care of business
You have no idea if they ever complained.
@@AutumnHarvest1 Actually I do. My aunt was one of them so I know how they worked.
That's because they knew their men were on the frontline and they wanted to help them. Do their bit. God bless all of them! We wouldn't be here without them. ❤🇬🇧
@Stuart Beatty Well it's what we do in a British country and if tolerance is forced upon us now, they can politely accept the same. God Bless.
For those who don't know, Castle Bromwich is in Birmingham, a city which has claims to have been the world's first industrial town but has always been the subject of much snobbery in the UK: my standard response to it these days is to say "If we'd known you were going to be like this, we wouldn't have bothered to build all those Spitfires...". My mother worked there during the war, and told me how one day a lone German aircraft flew over and machine-gunned the factory. The city was heavily bombed (much more so than nearby Coventry, which was the subject of one particularly notorious raid), but it suffered a virtual news blackout, always being referred to as "a Midlands town" because its factories were so crucial to the war effort. Today this factory is the home of Jaguar Land Rover.
Slim and trim! Gorgeous ladies!
Rationing will do that I suppose
@@kirstiecowie2141 Yeah, that was not it at all. People simply ate better and moved a lot more too. Plus, being fat was nothing to be proud, there was logic about that back then.
@@celinhabr1 But not being fat is racist..CNN said so, so must be true..
Thank you Glamourdaze, for each and every one of your enhanced videos! You - as well as other editors - give us a whole new possibility to experience history. This is most valuable work. :)
Look at these mechanics with their skills! 😍
What a bunch of awesome patriotic girls , we could definitely do with more like that these days! 😎
Bravo! I'm learning about WW2 and England, Spitfire was soo important 2 winning the war!
Well, maybe from a British perspective it was.
Contrary to popular belief, the Battle of Britain was won largely by Hurricanes. Though truth to tell every aircraft involved was crucial.
As in all theatres of war, before and since, you ended up fighting with what you were given.
If you've ever seen the movie "Battle of Britain" there's a chilling scene in which a senior officer asks a controller "What reserves do we have left?" The terrifying reply - "We have no reserves - everything we have is in the air." Through family connections I know for a fact that account is true. How must those people have felt, knowing their entire world might end within hours?
What the movie didn't show was the number of student fliers and reserve pilots, many officially retired, standing prepared to take off in trainers and old biplanes - anything that might fly - to place their very bodies between the invaders and their country.
Of course in the last result the victory was down to *everyone* involved. If ever a conflict was a case of "For want of a nail..."
It wasn't just heroes that prevailed, it was perfectly ordinary people doing the most extraordinary things - and, I was often told by that generation, often surprising themselves more than anyone else.
@@limedickandrew6016 Erm, no. From ANYONE’s perspective.
What trailblazing women! Makes you proud. X
Fantastic video footage of the women's huge contribution to the war effort. Thank you for cleaning it up and sharing it with us.
Those were the days when hard work would be tempered by the wireless and "Music While you Work," etc which helped make a long, hard day, bearable. I was a child in Southern England during those years and Women really carried the burden on the Home Front. At first it seemed odd to me, but I soon got used to female clippie's on the buses and ticket collector's on trains and appearing in jobs that used to be predominately the domain of males. It just showed that Women could turn their hand to anything a man did. I take my hat of to all those who took part, we couldn't have done it without you.
Yes Dave, they were the Home front and kept Britain going Working above and beyond the call of duty My Mother lived and worked by the Thames docks that copped a lot of bombing I once asked how did you put up with it She replied You just had to We just got on with it There is a book on Women at war in Britain which I have read it really opened my eyes One part has always stuck in my mind, was that many committed suicide the favourite place was railway station Toilets So sad
This channel is so awesome! I love old historical film footage. 👍
Absolute legends, the lot of em.
This is the part I LOVE of the 40s! They're soooooo badass!!!!
Me too... Not like now. They're soooooo whiny and winghy!!!! (Not all of course, but mostly)
Badass? Well I’m sorry but I disagree, I think there’s a lot of great ass here
Love this. Thank you for sharing.
WW2 and its aftermath played a big role in the emancipation of women, because all of the sudden they noticed they were perfectly capable of doing the men's jobs. That changed the way they percieved themselves and gave them a new confidence, not only in GB.
Um... WW1
Huurgh, how did this empancipate women🙄🙄🙄
@@munix9351 Women realized they are perfectly capable of doing "men" jobs, that they are not weak and fragile. They also liked being payed and having some free time (not caring for husbands, kids).
@@munix9351 Society as a whole genuinely believed that women were incapable of working in this way prior to the early 20th century. After the necessity of women taking on these roles in the war, it was impossible to claim that women weren't able to do these jobs because they'd been so successful in these jobs that they'd formed critical parts of the war effort. Many of them were still replaced by returning men and expected to return to a housewife role, which was often unfulfilling compared to the careers they'd begun during the war.
The war simply proved that a great deal of the misogynistic stereotypes about women were untrue and no reason at all to hold women back in public life.
@@bobblelooble3530 Are you saying that after facing death, the men coming back should have stayed home? That they didn't deserve a job? Do you really think that England owed less to men fighting on the battlefield than to women working in plants? That somehow women were given the short end of the deal?
Love this video❤️ makes me feel like I’m right there with them.👍
Great footage, enhanced! Really illustrates how much these ladies did for the war effort!
My Great Grandfather was in the first and second war. Sadly during the end of the second war. He was confined to a bunker most of the time. He had mental problems and would often shout alot. He moved to Argentina just before the war ended. He needed his privacy you see.
Look at how beautiful natural and fit and healthy these girls were.
Food was a lot more expensive and hard to come by back then but also remarkably healthy because the government had gone out of its way since the 1920s to break down and understand the nutritional contents of foods, fortify many foods with vitamins and minerals, figure out what a balanced, healthy diet was and educate the public about eating healthy. This all meant that despite the rationing system, by 1950 stuff like calcium deficiency (which used to be a very common deficiency) was half as less common post-war in children as what it had been in the 1920s.
From a civilian perspective, while a lot of people remember the food shortages, WW2 was actually good for modernising society in all kinds of ways, from bringing technologies like microwaves and fridges into homes and food science to the table, to bringing along women's rights & education movements, breaking down class divides, improving social mobility, health care, general health and welfare.
Because looks are the most important thing.
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@@maywalker997 Your promising rhetoric almost would perfectly fit a war-promotion brochure.
No junk foods back then, they had to grow it and cook it. The WW2 years were the healthiest years in the U.K. from a dietary point of view.
@@HektorBandimar Asolutely agree with you, I have talked about this with my folks who are both well into their 80's and still quite healthy, I'm in my 50's and I have all kinds of problems with my digestion not to mention Diverticulitis, probably because of working away from home for over 20 years and eating too much rubbish food.
I love the hairstyles and clothing from that era.
I enjoy seeing old films brought into real time life. Well done to glamour daze. Keep up the geat work.
I am stunned...and a tribute to this generation...grazie 🇮🇹
I remember this like yesterday! Good old bunty Caruthers was so good at riveting. Nostalgia is not what it used to be!
'Birds of a feather stick together"! ❤️
Beautiful both those who were there & the Spitefire. Awesome History right here.
Beautiful, and the planes were probably put together better than when the men did it.
Fantastic. Thank you.
Bravo, thank you!!!
Some of these were the 'old lady's ' who used to fill the pews next to you in church .
God bless 'em !
Wonderful people who worked day and night to keep the free world free. We owe them our lives....in every way.
These are such wonderful videos, it's fascinating to see them! Especially in color!!
STUNNING.
These lovely ladies helped defeat a tyrant. Thanks for showing them to us!
Great ladies!
Customers mother in law was an inspector at Castle Bromwich works. She kept all her inspection documentation. Customer offered it all to Duxford museum, they weren't interested.
What an honor to have worked on such a beautiful and iconic airplane
Magnifique archive.
"- I am getting married next week."
LOL who added the sound on these videos?
Driving rivets without hearing protection must hurt.
For a while, then permanent damage sets in and the ear stops hearing these frequencies. But it is not as bad as firing a gun and fighting the enemy on the battlefield.
This is the Queen of England’s contemporaries! 👑🙌🏼🇬🇧
There hasn’t been a ‘Queen of England’ 🏴 for over 300 years.
Wonderful. So conscientious and proud, yet so modest and down to earth. These characteristics oozed beauty. Unlike some of the narcissistic types today.
This is Great seeing women doing this kind of work they must have been proud to see what they assembled taking to the air how can anyone not be proud and Grateful to them and their achievements at this time and to look so Beautiful
I love this
Priceless!
This is amazing
Awesome!
I want those overalls.
Melhorou o meu dia! Gratidão!
Stepped up! ❤️
Wonderfull thank you
If there are any of the (would be) hundred year old girls out there.....be proud, because our gratitude will never die, and yes, you looked beautiful.
I love your channel ❣️
They were told in advance that that they were going to be filmed so they wanted to look their best.. it's a morale boosting film , 🥰🥰🥰
Потрясно! Спасибо!
I bet though planes were perfectly built and over looked more than a few times. Alot of women pay attention to detail, down to their perfect lipstick 💄 color.
Super cool !
I would LOVE a pair of those overalls!
These women deserve much credit for their contribution to England's victory in "The Battle of Britain", often considered Germany's first major defeat in WWII.
"England's" victory(?) Tell that to the Polish, Czech, commonwealth pilots etc! "England's!" (!)
Incredible ♥️
Definite respect!
Could watch that all day.
How just how did 24 people dislike this? I guess because it was not some one playing a computer game which they fought it was prior to watching.
Bravo à vous Medames
I love the hairstyles in the 40's