This short 14 minute documentary featured in the 2007 Sundance Film Festival won't leave you disappointed. The film invigorates an aged WWII pilot when he is reunited with old video footage of himself taken by his unit's flight surgeon during the war.
The film was directed by William Lorton. Jason's grandfather was a flight surgeon for the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II named Jim Savage, known as 'Doc' at the British air base he was stationed at.
As the unit flight surgeon, Doc filmed a variety of events with his own 16 mm camera throughout the War. The film sequence that impressed them most was of an American pilot making a wheels-up landing in a Submarine Spitfire with tail number 944.
Lorton located the pilot of Spitfire 944, Lt Col (retired) John S. Blyth, who had known of Doc's footage but had never actually seen it. His reaction is dignified, but clearly full of both shock and warm sentiment.
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