Note to viewers — Cadet Force series are film animations based on cloning images built up from historical photos. First release of CadetForce2 was end September 2022. Cadet Force 3 introduced March 2023 includes “Stable & Armoury” plus “Cloning Operation”, highly fictional ‘Secrets of The Keep’. Please leave comments in the comments section of this website – looking forward to hearing from you – thanks! Latest in the series is Cadet Force Four for which we have shared the most recent developments here (movie now finalized). There are just two characters, one cadet cloned many times, and Mr. Churchill with face from photographs and from a wax model. Project post.
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Music is from Purple Planet, and an instrumental version of “Morning has broken”.
Inspiration and barracks photos for CadetForce3 & 4 are from Bryan Steele.
Context: Our school cadet force remained strong even following the end of British national military service. We would use the Kempston barracks facility for parades and such, hence it has been a good exercise to reconstruct images to fit all these clones from that era ! Our own 1960’s photos were usable only to view the outline of the buildings, so big thanks to Bryan for recent photos, and links to historical ones, which have enabled CF3 and now CF4.
Cadet Force 4 is an idea whose time has come (!): The idea for Cadet Force Four is that, as Sir Winston (Mr. Churchill in those days) took up residence near Bedford during the Second World War, he probably made also a visit to the barracks at Kempston at some point in time. Whether he did or did not in reality is quite irrelevant, within the cadet force series he most certainly did ! — And not in a Jeep but in his own Land Rover which he received for his 80th birthday in 1954.
The video scenario takes place in the spring of 1963, not quite two years before Sir Winston Churchill died in January 1965 at age 90. It is of course totally fictional, but fits to his association with Bedford and the armed forces. Churchill was Knighted by Queen Elisabeth II on 24 April, 1953 and received the Nobel prize for literature later that same year.
There will be some errors of decor to be sure, and also some deliberate anomalies – such as the retractable borne at the barracks road entrance – this invention was not available until 1985! And once we go inside, there will be others like the giant video display in the arena which could have been projection, but seems more like a giant LED screen visible in bright sunshine. The EU flag appears among the country ones as fulfillment of Churchill’s vision.
Video version source files: CadetForce4_Scenarios1-19, Sep/Oct 2024
Music for the intro is by Purple Planet (heroic last stand, recall of Cadet Force 3.
Churchill speech was given at the University of Zurich 19 Sep1946 (‘Let Europe Arise’).
Flag video by Media center of the European Parliament, additional UK and Swiss flags by Videezy.
‘Morning has Broken’, A Christian hymn first published in 1931. Written by English author Eleanor Farjeon.
The song was made famous by Cat Stevens (1971) and instrumentally augmented by Rick Wakeman. So far we cannot locate the instrumentalists on this version but when we do they will be credited.
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