Missing: films from the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment during WW2

[robinbird]

Wonder what happened to the cans of cine film taken of trials at the Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment during WW2. I know Kew has black and white photographs. Some archive film of Highball trials does exist. Maybe the missing film is stored somewhere?

 

[TsrJoe]

Like so much material over the intervening years, so many reasons, binned/stored to make space, or seen as of no further research interest/historical/technical value, or factory closure/takeover, or archive fire/flood/rot infestation/closure/weeding, or lost/aquired/stolen/binned ... so much material, so much gone :/

 

[NMaude]

Even if the film hasn't been lost it may no longer be usable due to being improperly stored and basically rotting away or too degraded to use.