A NEW life-boat film called Gale Warnings, with a spoken commentary, is now in use, and the Institution's branches can ask for it at any time for showing in cinemas, at meetings, or privately.

The film is designed to illustrate the great variety of the work of the Service. It opens with the warning of a gale. The men of the crews are seen leaving their daily jobs and assembling at the sound of the maroon. Life-boats are seen launch- ing and in action at different stations all round the coasts of Great Britain and Ireland. Various kinds of rescue are seen; a boy adrift in a rubber dinghy; a sick man being brought ashore from a yacht; a burning salvage ship; a sinking coaster.

Something of the history of the Service is shown, in particular the development of life-boats from the first rowing boats to the powerful twin screw motor life-boats of today, and there are shots of the building of a life-boat. There are also shots of the work of the volunteers who collect the funds for the Service.

The stations shown in the film are Cromer, Dungeness, Lytham, Penlee, Southend - on - Sea, Swanage, Tyne- mouth, Whitby, and Yarmouth, Isle of Wight in England ;Beaumaris, Mumbles and Moelfre in Wales; Peterhead in Scotland; Portrush inNorthern Ireland; Arranmore and Baltimore in Eire.

The film has been made for the Institution by Ace Productions. It takes twenty-five minutes to show, but there is also a short version lasting ten minutes. It is in two sizes, the 35millimeters, for use in cinemas, and 16 millimeters, for use on home projectors.