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WWII - England - Civilian Home front

220194 01:48:18 - 01:54:39 1939 SIL B/W

Man selling Evening News & others selling other newspapers re war. Man with Stop War poster supporting Mosley. Distributing Action newsletter against war. General street scenes w/ traffic buses etc. Outside subway Tottenham Court Road. Pedestrians walking, talking in groups. Poster: Today's cabinet on Czech crisis. Pedestrians, windows. Sign in window: The Parties want War to save Czechoslovakia for a politicians' quarrel.

220161 01:36:49 - 01:37:25 1939 SD B/W

Refugees - Jewish children in London
Kids dancing and playing out from overhead and at table level: Narration says Jewish and in many cases the letters will never reach their parents

220364 00:47:49 - 00:58:25 1939 SD B/W

London Preparing for War
Whistle, pedestrians, London traffic & people in sun. Cricket, tennis, golf, walking. London papers & war headlines. Radio station; bar & people listening to radios; antennas; ships signalling. Title Mobilization. British navy ships; guns moving. Anti-aircraft batteries in operation. Pilots on field. Police drilling. Air raid wardens making notes; civilians watching. Decontamination squads dressing & drills. Aux. fire service at pumping station & canal boats. Putting up blackout curtains; filling buckets; turning off gas; sandbagging. Digging trenches. Clouds. Factory town. Montage re war. Air raid sirens, empty streets, wardens & police; families to shelters. Wardens on phones.

220639 17:28:32 - 17:35:15 1939 SIL B/W

England WWII - London Gas Masks and Blackout Preparations
Exterior Lambeth ARP stores. Workmen painting white stripes on kerbs and tree trunks for blackout. Exterior Lambeth ARP stores, children waiting in courtyard. Wedding, Bride and Groom out of church , confetti, bridesmaids and guests carrying gas masks. Sign re ARP gas masks. Young boy sitting on kerb wearing gas mask. 17:31:48 Policemen wearing steel helmets. Sandbagging corner shop. Sandbags piled round Fire alarm at fire station. Sign London Fire station and wanted poster with picture of Hitler. Man painting running boards on bus for blackout. Men painting bumpers on cars white. Sandbags piled up round petrol pumps at garage. Car pulling into garage for petrol

220639 17:35:26 - 17:46:40 1939 SIL B/W

England WWII - Child Evacuation - Hospital Evacuation. Rear view line of children carrying luggage and gas masks walk to bus. Line of kids walk out of railway station, policeman in foreground directing them. More rural setting - Line of schoolgirls wearing school uniforms and hats and carrying luggage and gas masks. Schoolgirls in gymslips. 17:36:36 School girls walking in crocodile along pavement to Wood Lane station. Interior girls walking down underground stairs. 17:38:31 Shepherds Bush Place W.12 - crowds of younger children gathered with mothers. Lines of kids carrying belongings and gas masks walk slowly to tube station. Kids down escalators. Young children with their mothers wait by outdoor coffee bar. 17:41:03 Line of buses marked ambulance - men in white coats board buses. Grass area with buses and women and children. People buying tickets? Buses which have been converted into ambulances. Bus pulls into courtyard and stretcher with old lady carried off. More stretchers off buses. People on stretchers on railway station. Stretchers onto train. Huge pile of sandbags against wall of ?. Sign Westminster Abbey re International Peace Vigil. 17:46:25 Nurse helping someone from wheelchair into car.

220639 17:46:51 - 17:55:10 1939 SIL B/W

England WWII - Construction work at school, builders knocking hole in outside wall. Carpenters cutting wood in playground. Interior empty classroom, plasterer working on wall, two schoolboys carry in bags and put them on desks. Workmen sandbagging large building, could be Westminster. Interior shot through lead light windows of workmen. Interior workmen removing stained glass windows for safety . Shop window with sign - materials suitable for blackout. Sign department store window Blackout Blinds made to order, torches in shop window. 17:52:11 Building sand bag defences around trenches in London park ? Young men filling bags and building sandbag walls. Civilians watching from behind fence. Bell tents. Little boy watching through wooden fence

220439 06:26:58 - 06:31:25 1939 SIL B/W

England gets ready for War - Huge crowds surrounds official car - Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador to Berlin into British Airways aircraft and away. London prepares for war - cabinet comings and goings from Downing Street etc. Sir Neville Henderson returns landing in Lufthansa plane with swastika on tail - Henderson leaves railway station in official car - Henderson into Downing Street. Crowds waving to Royal ? car as leaves station (could be Southport) car driving into Buckingham Palace - London docks - unloading - crowds waving off passenger ship - newspaper boards - ÒWar ImminentÓ - signs Air Raid Precautions - politicians leaving Downing Street short shot Chamberlain at microphone - London streets - newspaper signs - Americans told to leave Britain - Moscow on the Pact - Imminent Peril of war. David Lloyd George and other MPs into Downing street.

220188 01:17:22 - 01:27:32 1940s B/W

8th AAF GIs Christmas Shopping, England
Piccadilly - London Street in rainy daytime w/ Wrigley sign & covered monument or fountain. Odeon seen. GI gets direction from police. Xmas gift stand & GIs & women looking in windows. Boy comes up & asks GI for chewing gum. Given. Flower vendor w/ GI. YMCA, GIs board bus & walk along sidewalk. 8th AAF making wooden toys for British kids. Drinking in pub. Red Cross gift wrapping packages.

LN 501-044 04:33:01 - 04:42:50 1940s SIL COL

The 303 Bombardment Group - The Men and their bird of War - Outstanding in the field of battle.
Tents around perimeter of airfield. Military cars parked under trees. Washing lines between trees. 04:34:00 Two airman and women in uniform down road - entrance to AFB and top shot town. 04:34:23 Turret of castle - trees. 04:34:36 Shot from hill of Molesworth - green surrounded by trees - large house by lake. 04:35:39 Clock tower of what could once have been cricket pavilion but is now Headquarters COPC ? Officers relaxing in deckchairs reading newspapers. Playing croquet - tennis courts - trees. 04:38:04 top shot town. 04:38:21 Stars and Stripes flying from flagpole. 04:38:30 Country road with hand painted centre white line. 04:38:47 US military cars and jeep parked in courtyard. Lake with swans flowers. 04:40:29 Large house and nissen huts in grounds - more good shots house which is presumably Headquarters - Fountain and lake. Men in swimming pool and sunbathing around edge, one with girl in bikini. Various shots over town and of house.

220639 17:03:34 - 17:09:09 1940 SIL B/W

WWII England - Air Raid Precautions. Sandbagged buildings, workmen piling up and filling sandbags. Sandbags outside government building - passing pedestrians. Filling sandbags. Exterior Charing Cross underground station. More piling sandbags against building covering windows. London parks dug up to fill sandbags.

220639 17:09:20 - 17:18:02 1940 SIL B/W

WWII England - Air Raid Defences - Gas Masks. People reading information posters. Poster re fitting gas masks. 17:10:21 Women with children picking up branches ? Bulldozer digging trench in park. Queues outside building waiting for gas masks. Bulldozer digging up verge of road. Workmen constructing shelter ? Sign asking for volunteers re ARP. Queues for gas masks. Interior men trying on gas masks. Queues - line of waiting people on chairs. Exterior people having gas masks fitted and testing - baby girl having mask fitted - crying. Queues on chairs - mostly women and children. Interiors, gas mask fitting. Sign Borough of Camberwell - Fitting.

220639 17:18:14 - 17:23:56 1940 SIL B/W

WWII England - Evacuation of Children. CU Children waiting, kids onto bus, mothers. LCC Buses pull out of school playground, mothers wave goodbye. Bridge Street Westminster, crowds looking through railings. Crowd gathered outside ?, people entering watched by crowds. Policemen on door stops Indian man from entering. Sign on bus Westminster LCC. Buses loaded with evacuees pull away. Young girl evacuees with luggage leave building and onto bus. Young man wearing mortar board helps load luggage. Children on bus looking out of window, one wearing gas mask. Looks like it could be Public School

220443 10:00:03 - 10:07:01 1940-1941 SIL B/W

Bomb Damage in London City. ARP wardens on streets looking at bombed out buildings - devastation. Wrecked car. Doorman outside hotel. London bus depot, inspector waves bus out. Interior bus - conductress / clippie. Shot of clippie riding on bus platform as bus along road. Clearing rubble from streets. City business men trying to get down street past rubble. Business men take company sign off bombed out office building. Top shot over city showing devastation, some buildings still smoking. 10:05:25 Street level, hoarding with sign emergency public telephones / telegrams accepted. Taxis and bus past. Banner on bombed building saying Kendal and Dent - New Premises, Queens Street. Men in and out of emergency telephone building. Men come out wearing signs saying Telegrams Accepted. Signs - messages on scraps of paper and card saying We have been bombed out and giving forwarding addresses. Shop with sign Business as Usual and giving new address.

220443 10:07:01 - 10:11:16 1940-1941 SIL B/W

Bomb Damage in City of London. Morning after Blitz. Postman climbing over rubble. ARP wardens and firemen and policemen looking at devastation. Smouldering ruins. Shots of destroyed church of St Lawrence Jewry next to Guildhall. Police and auxiliary firemen having tea at stall. LCC van with firefighting equipment. Two men, one city gent picking their way over rubble. Damaged statues.

220585 12:14:24 - 12:17:28 1940s SD B/W

WWII - England & Bomb Damage. Bombers over England; Anti-aircraft Ack Ack guns firing, flak & explosions. Hurricane Fighter crashes - pilot parachutes into sea. RAF launches out to rescue pilot. Pilot (New Zealander) walks past camera in blanket. Damaged houses, churches, gardens with sandbagged shelters behind houses that had heavy bomb damage. German pilot captured from Channel. Men talking. Damage. Store windows. Statue of Milton destroyed. Financial district damage - Westminster Bank. City gents in bowler hats. Interior of bomb damaged houses. Policeman looking at shrapnel. Spiv coming out of hut which has signs business as usual.

220585 12:17:35 - 12:20:30 1940s SD B/W

WWII - England, Fighter Planes & Anti-Aircraft Defence. German plane on display in downtown London(?). Young girl collecting money. Fighter aircraft over & anti-aircraft firing. Plane crashes into field (not seen). Other planes diving. Barrage balloon hit & burns. Soldiers run with rifles to defence position at airfield. Pilots taking off in fighters (Hurricanes?). German planes. Contrails. Barrage balloon up. Captured German pilot marched by soldiers. Reloading plane guns. German planes over. Cameraman in middle of sandbagged position picks up shrapnel. Fighters return; Polish airman talks to British. (Battle of Britain)

220585 12:20:36 - 12:23:54 1940s SD B/W

WWII - England, Fires & Bomb Damage Inspected by King. Searchlights at night. Burning buildings at night after bombing raid, blitz. View of heavy smoke from across houses. Firemen fighting fires. Factory fire fought from fireboats. Smoking cigarette. Bus heavily damaged; houses & schools destroyed. Clearing up operations. Sign Sidney Street of Sidney Street Siege fame. People looking at houses destroyed. Housewives give thumbs up. ARP wardens. King George inspects and talks to women. Searchlights; people look out of shelters. Cat amongst rubble. People wave to King as he leaves in car.

220717 18:42:04 - 18:54:19 1940 SD B/W

London Fire Raids - Blitz. Aftermath of air-raid on London - Fires burning from incendiary bombs. Firefighting - firemen with hoses. Interior fire service control room - women on telephones - plotting on map. 18:44:54 Fires raging - Parish Church of St Lawrence Jewry on fire - St Brides Church in Fleet street on fire. Fireboats pump water from Thames. Firemen struggling with hoses across mudflats. Firemen hosing shops and warehouses. Classic shot of cross silhouetted against fires. Top shot buildings blazing. Fires in Southwark - building collapses. Ryvita Company building in flames. Old Bailey. 18:51:11 Next morning - aftermath - debris - bomb damage. The Guildhall - interiors showing damage - Church of St Lawrence interiors showing damage. Whitecross street - burnt out abandoned vehicles blocking street. 18:53:25 Funeral of one of the firemen who died. Injured firefighters laughing. Old Bailey
(Clearance may be necessary from London Fire service.)

220636 15:00:18 15:09:26 1940 SD B/W

Why We Fight - Battle of Britain - Reel 1
Graphic shadow of Germans over Britain. Rear view Hitler and others stand looking at Eiffel Tower. German troops marching in Paris. Dunkirk - Hitler in open top car through streets - destroyed buildings. Calais - ships sunk in harbour - German coastal defence - Hitler looking through telescope / binoculars towards England. White cliffs of Dover. 15:02:35 Animated map showing Nazi campaign so far. 15:02:58 Berlin - Chancellery - guards on duty . Interior Hitler and Generals looking at maps. 15:03:47 German plan for invasion of England. Animated graphic. 15:05:21 German troops marching towards coast of France. German military vehicles and equipment at ports. 15:06:06 British army - Dunkirk - rescues / evacuation - aircraft over - British naval ships fire anti-aircraft guns (Ack-Ack). Abandoned British army equipment in Dunkirk. Men boarding troop ships. British tank - coastline - Battleship. RAF airfield - fighter plane flying. 15:07:38 Homefront - British Civilians - montage street scene - family life - workers. Home guard - drilling, no uniforms - trained to use arms. 15:08:38 Women join war effort. Women with barrage balloons - women man anti-aircraft guns (Ack Ack) Women cleaning railway engine and manning signal box. Women ferry planes - carry dispatches - drive ambulances and buses. Cooking.

220636 15:09:40 15:18:39 1940 SD B/W

Why We Fight - Battle of Britain - Reel 2. Homefront - Men and women working in armament factory - aircraft assembly - woman on lathe / machinery - steel foundry. Tea trolley. Workers relax - playing darts. Home guard patrolling moors - road blocks - rehearse invasion defences. Home guard leaving homes. 15:11:08 Winston Churchill - people listening to radio broadcast Ò we shall fight them on the beaches Ò speech over shots invasion defences. Houses of Parliament seen through barbed wire. Family digging Anderson shelter. Civilians carry gas masks. Montage preparation shots - King George VI looking over channel. 15:12:02 Air Raid siren -- children and babies with gas masks. 8Aug40 Two soldiers on spotting duty at coast - anti-aircraft guns- German aircraft attack Channel convoys - bombs exploding. RAF scramble - bell ringing. Fighters take off from field. Dogfights over Channel. German plane crashes into sea. Wrecked Nazi planes. Animated graphic re Battle of Britain. German planes bomb British coastline. Bus with Rye on front pulls up to side of country road as German plane comes in to attack. Spitfire on tail of German. More wrecked German aircraft. German planes bomb Plymouth - cargo ships in docks being unloaded with supplies. Spitfires in flight. 15:17:31 Luftwaffe attack Dover / Hellfire corner. Bombing airfields. RAF planes hidden in trees. Spitfires in flight. Animated graphic re Battle of Britain. British pilot parachutes into Channel. Pickup by navy. (Blitz)

220636 15:18:47 - 15;26;37 1940 SD B/W

Why We Fight - Battle of Britain - Reel 3. Pilots rescued from sea by boat and seaplane. Wrecked German aircraft. German prisoners of war. POWs in internment camp. 15:19:22 Hitler - German troops in France waiting for invasion to start. Military equipment at coast. Long range German guns and railroad guns firing shells across the Channel. Hitler in Congress. Goering arrives by car at building / Chancellery ? 15:20:23 30Aug40 Hitler visits airfield. German planes prepared for bombing attack. Fighter planes take off. German aircraft fly in formation - bombers protected by fighters. 15:20:59 England - Coastal defences - anti-aircraft (Ack-Ack) guns - listening posts along coast. Operations room - plotting map. British fighter planes take off. Animated map showing Dover area (Hells Corner ) under attack. German planes get through flak and bomb airfields. Air-raid warden sounds alarm from factory roof. Factory workers run out of factory and man fire engines. Men in factory working in tin hats as German planes drop bombs. Spitfires in flight. Dogfight. RAF flight return to field - report downing of German planes - damage to Spitfires. Animated graphic showing losses. 15:24:24 Berchtesgaden - Hitler and Goering in front of window. Planning meeting. 15:24:59 London - civilians on streets - Ack Ack guns - barrage balloons. Child evacuation. Air raid shelters prepared - sand bags. Blackout - policeman wearing tin hat. 15:26:10 27 Sep40 People into shelters - men on phone in control room. (Blitz)

220636 15:26:54 15:36;50 1940 SD B/W

Why We Fight - Battle of Britain - Reel 4. 27Sept40 People into shelters - department store cleared of shoppers as air raid warning given. Roof spotters. Mass formation of German planes. Spitfire. German aircraft dropping bombs. People in underground shelter. Piccadilly Circus tube station. Germans drop bombs. 15:28:19 Aftermath of blitz - bomb damaged houses and shops. Church demolished. Clearing up operations. Man carrying unexploded bomb. 15:28:56 Civilian life on the home front. Taxi driver swaps cloth hat for tin hat - woman with ration book in grocery shop. Man goes into air raid shelter. Nice sequence in communal shelter. Air raid wardens - doctors and nurses - rescue squads digging in bombed out building. Bringing out body on stretcher. 15:30:07 Firemen firefighting. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth tour bombed areas in East End. 15:30:27 Goering at planning meeting. German aircraft bombed up. German bombers and Messerschmidt fighters fly in formation. England - spotters radio through to control room. Plotting table. RAF Spitfires take off - dogfights. Spotters. Barrage balloon in flames. Bombing London (brief) Teletype machine prints out losses. Man reads out message from Air Ministry to control room. 15:34:58 Wreckage of plane in street. Clearing up operation in London. Wounded civilians. Bomb damage to Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey and Houses of Parliament. Fleet Street and St PaulÕs Cathedral. Damaged German planes. Goering and Hitler in railway carriage - meeting. 15:36:22 6Oct40 Germans begin night attacks on Britain. (Blitz)

220636 15:37:22 15:46:41 1940 SD B/W

Why We Fight - Battle of Britain - Reel 5 Blitz. Oct 6th 1940 Germans begin night attacks on Britain. Spotters - searchlight. RAF scramble. Night shots Ack-Ack guns. London docks on fire. City of London in flames. Londoners in Leicester Square tube shelter. Man coming out of Anderson shelter. Various men and women out of shelters - getting tea at tea station - people discuss the nights raids. Couple return home to find street bombed. Man goes off to work. London streets - people still going to work. Man in business suit giving V for victory sign. RAF bombers getting bombed up - bomb train. Bomber command - Officers look at reconnaissance photographs. Briefing for pilots - Target for tonight - shipbuilding yards at Bremen. Night falling - RAF bombers take off. Interior aircraft. German pilots scramble. Searchlights. German anti-aircraft guns firing. RAF drop bombs. Ground shots buildings on fire. 15:43:43 Nov. 14th 1940 German film night bombing. Ruins of Coventry the next day. Building collapses. Civilians on streets. Demolished houses. Funeral of victims in mass grave - laying wreaths. 15:46:21 Factory workers carry on - women at lathes. Armament factory. Aircraft factory.

220636 15:46:57 15:54;12 1940 SD B/W

Why We Fight - Battle of Britain - Reel 6 Blitz. Christmas 1940 - Choir sings O Come All Ye Faithful - Father returns home - hugs little girl - Xmas tree in room. Tube shelter life with Christmas trees. Night shots - spotters - searchlights. Incendiary / fire bomb raid on London. London on fire - flames - firefighting - water pumped from Thames river. Buildings blazed. People in shelters. Fires - searchlights - anti-aircraft guns (Ack-Ack). German plane down in flames. 15:51:13 Churchill with cheering civilians. Destroyed German aircraft. German war cemetery. Bomb damaged houses in Britain. Dead civilians - rescue operations. Coastal defences. Soldier standing next to gun looking out over Channel. Montage shots to show difference between British and Germans - British woman tells of all the different things that have happened to her but will Òcarry onÓ. RAF - short excerpt from ChurchillÕs speech Ò so much owed by so many to so fewÓ. RAF choir sing There Will Always be An England over patriotic shots.

220413 04:11:00 - 04:24:00 1940s SD B/W

Its Your America Part 2. Dramatizes how a penny takes on new meanings to a soldier as he learns the significance of its inscriptions and Lincoln's quotations. Training continues in different States of America - troops on the move in America - boarding ships and trains. Map with different army acquaintances superimposed. Montage stockshots - streets - fields - suburbia. 04:11:52 Soldier on board troop ship leaving New York at night. 04:12:17 England - Soldier in London pub drinking stout (beer) at bar. Bartender helps him with English money and comments on his US penny. Barman talks of Churchill. Soldier talks of Lincoln (strange sound fault clips the names) Air raid siren sounds. German aircraft in flight - bombs dropping - ceiling of pub drops down. Exterior aftermath of air raid on London - damaged buildings - two children in rubble. Rescue operations. 04:16:21 Italy - bomb damaged buildings - soldier looks at tattered poster of Mussolini. Lincoln memorial as soldier remembers LincolnÕs speech. 04:17:42 Soldier getting medical treatment after getting injured on beach at Anzio. Asks doctor what ÒE Pluribus Unum,Ó means - doctor translates as Out of Many One - discuss how America is made up of many different races and religions living together in freedom and democracy. 04:19:59 German prisoners of war in camp. Soldier talking with French soldier who recalls how arrogant the Germans looked when they marched into Paris. POWs looking bedraggled. Two soldiers continue talking - Frenchman tells how he escaped concentration camp and joined French resistance. French soldier tells how his wife was killed by Germans. Says after the war he wants to visit his wifeÕs grave and the second most important thing will be to vote because then he knows he and his country will be free.

220793 12:28:18 - 12:37:44 1940-1942 SD B/W

ChurchillÕs Island - Reel 1

On screen credit re Academy Award winner for 1942

German troops in France manning gun emplacements looking out over straits of Dover - White cliffs. Barrage balloons - British defences, spotters on coast and on rooftops - early radar ? post. Civilian workers into armament factory - interiors, men and women - bombs - sign encouraging hard work for the war effort.

12:30:24 Hitler making speech over shots German railroad RR guns. Coastal defences - Big guns on French coast being loadedand fired - multiple shots. British man in uniform to camera ÒI can usually hear Gerry leaving the other side ...Ó. Bombed out church and residential housing. Policeman on point / traffic duty.

12:31:51 Battle of Britain - Sept. 1940 - German aircraft taking off and in flight formation. England - air-raid warning - Anti-aircraft gun - police putting on steel hats - shopkeeper closes shop - woman ambulance driver runs to ambulance. Fire engine out of station. ARP wardens in gas masks. People into shelters. Map / operations control room. German planes over coastline. Barrage balloon in flames. Ack-Ack guns fired. German planes dropping bombs. Shots pilots smiling. Explosion and building on fire. RAF Spitfires engage Germans in dogfight. Plane crashes into sea. Various shots wrecked German planes. Scenes of Blitz - firefighting - British sailor to camera Ò IÕve pulled more Gerrys out the drink than I ever knew existed ... Ò Plane partly submerged in sea.

12:36:48 Ships from Canada and USA carrying bombers for Britain. German officers with Hitler at planning meeting. Launching of German submarines

220793 12:37:53 - 12:48:42 1940-1942 SD B/W

ChurchillÕs Island - Reel 2

German naval school - animated map showing Nazi plan to blockade Britain. AVs ships at sea - German Fokker bombers targeting supply convoy. German U-boats off coast of Ireland. Interior German submarine. Subs diving - periscope shots of convoy - torpedo launched - ship explodes. Ship sinking. Subs surfacing and making way, these shots over German song re sailing against England. German sub on surface firing at merchant ship - ship sinking.

12:41:30 USA - shipyard - ship down slipway. Canada - launching of Corvettes. British ships fire depth charges - explosions in water. On board ship - crew. Convoys into harbour.

12:42:41 German officers study map - looking at surveillance film. Shot from German plane flying along British coast. German Torpedo boat at speed. German paratroops training. Aircraft over - mass of parachutes. Animated map detailing British defences.

12:44:18 Sunderland flying boats on reconnaissance mission. Sailors in North Sea signalling - naval patrol. Mine-laying. Booms - steel nets across harbor. Brief shots British seaside town with pier. British troops training in sand dunes. Coastal guns firing.

12:45:49 Home guard on patrol in field - church spire - tank traps - policeman stops couple and asks for identification. Car stopped at road block. Montage shots British military vehicles ready to rush to area threatened with invasion. Fighter aircraft patrol the skies. Mobilisation - getting uniforms - marching. Troopship arriving from Canada and elsewhere. Winston Churchill gives thumbs up to approaching ship. Home guard patrol near barbed wire - man anti-aircraft guns. RAF - planes on field with crews. Churchill inspects army. Montage British people - homefront. Ships in convoy. Good shot Tower Bridge and Tower of London as Union Jack raised. British coastal gum - barrel raised with soldier standing in silhouette.

220784 22:48:35 - 22:59:58 1940s SIL B/W

[Radio Listening] Broadcasting. CU of man; woman & child; radios; man in suit. Family. Group of well dressed adults. Working class; people by fireplaces. Women & girls in CU. Men in tuxedos. Women knitting.

220642 03:03:08 - 03:13:49 1940 SIL B/W

Bomb Damage in London, Coventry and South Eastern Towns . Damaged building - inns of Court and Middle Temple. Damaged statues. Exterior bomb damaged buildings.
03:05:25 Coventry Cathedral completely destroyed by bombs. Locals walking amongst rubble - looking at font. Destroyed windows. Clearing rubble. Town centre ? ARP wardens looking at destruction. Burnt out bus. 03:09:07 ARP Wardens laying injured civilian on stretcher. People trying to clear rubble from shopping area. Destroyed homes / houses. Stretcher carried out. Various shots bombed out buildings. Car stuck in road - broken water main. Housewives walking along street past barrier with sign Traffic for Shops only. Sign Sainsburys are open. Bombed out houses. Men on roof of United Dairies building. Fishmonger selling to women from table in front of bombed out shop. (Blitz)

220443 10:00:03 - 10:07:01 1940-1941 SIL B/W

Bomb Damage in London City. ARP wardens on streets looking at bombed out buildings - devastation. Wrecked car; doorman outside hotel. London bus depot, inspector waves bus out. Interior bus - conductress / clippie. Shot of clippie riding on bus platform as bus along road. Clearing rubble from streets. City business men trying to get down street past rubble. Business men take company sign off bombed out office building. Top shot over city showing devastation, some buildings still smoking. 10:05:25 Street level, hoarding with sign emergency public telephones / telegrams accepted. Taxis and bus past. Banner on bombed building saying Kendal and Dent - New Premises, Queens Street. Men in and out of emergency telephone building. Men come out wearing signs saying Telegrams Accepted. Signs - messages on scraps of paper and card saying We have been bombed out and giving forwarding addresses. Shop with sign Business as Usual and giving new address

220624 01:02:41 - 01:03:12 1941 SD B/W

Britain Marks Black Out Christmas. Exterior - Soldiers round Christmas tree with presents. Children running down Anderson air-raid shelter. Interior large shelter with kids in paper hats playing with balloon.

220650 14:08:24 - 14:09:04 1941 SIL B/W
Winston Churchill wearing pea-coat & wife Clementine riding in car as people cheer. Pearl Assurance building behind. Rubble in background. Military & civilian workers waving shovels etc. Churchill walks through Naval dockyard with officers. Churchill w/ cigar.

220650 14:09:06 - 14:09:47 1941 SIL B/W

[WWII - Churchill Inspects Damage & Cheered by Workmen] - Winston Churchill w/ cigar tours bomb damage & rescue workers. Pan over heavy destruction. Signing autograph. Shaking hands of workers. Signing official book.

220650 14:09:57 - 14:13:29 1941 SIL B/W

[WWII - Churchill at University & w/ Wife Inspects Damage & Cheered by Crowd] - Churchill & wife Clementine in SW England. Puts coin in naval collection box and puts pin on lapel. Past crowds, pets dog. Talking to woman amidst bomb damage. People taking pictures w/ still & moving picture cameras. University. Churchill greeted by in full mortar board & robes, greeted by various people. Posing outside. w/ Amb. Winant(?). Cheering crowd. Past lines of nurses. Reviews police or ?? Waves hat to crowd. Clementine following. Into car. Rides past debris & cheering crowds who wave from windows etc. Puts his hat on cane & waves. Gives thumbs up & shakes hands. Guy w/ missing front teeth & Churchill elbow.

220189 02:18:20 - 02:27:27 1942 SIL B/W

WWII - England, London Bomb Damage. Soldiers & others clearing rubble & debris from bombed building. Injured helped to building & others from ambulance into hospital. Firemen hosing down burning rubble. People behind police lines looking. Upset mannequins in window. Stores with windows & fronts blown out. Items carried out, people watch. 02:20:40 Fire burning & firemen w/ hoses on large pile of rubble. Houses destroyed & workers removing materials. Clothes & goods removed & pulling down bricks. Firemen hosing house. Officials inspect. Downtown damage & man sweeping glass on sidewalk. Sign: Bombed not beaten. Pedestrians past damage. Sign: Open for Business. Sign: Restaurant has reopened.

220188 01:40:22 - 01:43:06 1943 SD B/W

Sd. of Black troops marching thru town as pedestrians watch. Troops count cadence. White officers alongside appear distressed at their 'additions'. Stand at attention in square & go thru drill & salutes. Silent camera of marching thru town.

220363 11:05:55 - 11:14:51 1943 SD B/W

V-1 Rocket Bomb. Dusk shot of London, England. Smoke rises inF/G from V-1 bomb explosion. Civilians clearing rubble stop to look skyward. V-1 bomb in flight and crashing to earth. Smoke rises in B/G after explosion. MS, British soldiers at spotter station searching through unidentified device. Various V-1 rockets in flight. Man searching through ruins of his home.
Bus passes in front of American Red Cross (Rainbow) bldg, London. Cut to demolished bus. Short scenes, child walking atop heap of rubble - bomb site, burned out windows of restaurant, LucasÕs Chop House. Wreckage of hospital and church. Pan of bomb damaged homes; civil defence workers with aid of civilians and military search ruins. CU, hand of doctor takes pulse of badly burned hand and arm. Short scene, US soldiers standing in front of ARC bldg in London. Rescue squad plays water hose against smoking ruins of large buildings. CU, Ack Ack gun barrels firing. Cut to V-1 being hit by AA and bursting into flames. MLS, AA gun batteries in operation against V-ls. Various cuts to V-1 being hit and bursting into flames. 11:10:38 Semi silhouette, air raid warden spotter on rooftop looking skyward. FSV, barrage balloons in air over city. Cut to V-1 descending, falling to earth and exploding. Excellent GSAP footage, attack by antiaircraft fire on V-1 and its destruction. CU, British soldier looks through binoculars. Various cuts, reactions of farmers, women bathers, housewife, mother wheeling baby in pram, to V-1 bombs overhead. Excellent scenes of various sections of London totally destroyed by V-1 bombs. Civilians attempt to clear rubble. 11:14:00 Nurse attending wounded, elderly lady. HSs, two children walking through bombed area. CU, faces of the small boy and girl

220654 20:28:20 - 20:35:58 1943-1944 SIL B/W

London in Wartime. St PaulÕs Cathedral with traffic, double decker buses, passing in front. Steam roller with dome of St PaulÕs behind. Man operating steam roller clearing rubble from bomb damage. Top shot city showing levelled buildings. Rooftop - damaged Guildhall. Civil defence workers clearing rubble. Bombed out window with picture of Winston Churchill. Men removing paintings from blitzed shop. Old man leaving grocery shop with pint of milk. Woman buying milk through broken window. Group of schoolboys. Fireman damping down smoking building. Rescue workers going through rubble of bombed out building - man in charge Warwick. Rescue workers find body - bring out and wrap in shroud. Top shot rescue services outside hospital? 20:5:31 Interior hospital - nurse making bed - another nurse dressing hand wound.

220262 21:01:00 - 21:09:21 1944 B/W

Black nurse adjusting tension on leg hanger of German prisoner in hospital. MCU & CU. 05:06:2 Nurse prepares dressing for prisoner in traction. 2 nurses prepare instruments for surgery.

220289 07:09:50 - 07:19:23 1944 SD COL

D-Day & invasion, England to Paris Colour. London - Big Ben - Houses of Parliament - Westminster Abbey - US servicemen visiting. Marble Arch - crowds - Hyde Park, Speakers Corner. ChildrenÕs playground, kids on swings, drinking fountain. St PaulÕs - Buckingham Palace, guards on duty. Tower Bridge, Thames tugs with cargo, Fleet street - policeman.
Army camp South of England shots of press contingent in camp, Jack Lieb (cameraman) with shovel - CBS correspondent Larry Laseur. Other press - Gordon Becker - Jack Thompson - Ernie Pyle - Larry OÕReilly. More correspondents Clark Lee and Bill Stoneman. Press corps loaded onto small trucks and set off for South Coast - travel through market town. 07:15:24 Plymouth, bomb damage, buildings destroyed - jeeps on the road with wire cutters on their bumpers - Crossroads guards, one British and one American soldier inspects bedroll. OWI correspondents Wes Haines (Haynes) and Pete Carroll AP press photographer - eating K-rations. Washing hands in river, Pete Carroll taking scenic shots of river etc. 07:17:05 Docks, 101st Airborne Division loading onto landing craft for transfer to larger ships. Close shots smiling troops. Press aboard LCI with Commander of Invasion Group and Captain of LCI Number 5 Lt Patten? 07:18:26 Wes Haines trimming beard and troops of 101st relaxing on deck, one imitates Hitler. Ships mascot puppy having life jacket fitted. 07:19:10 Lt Patten briefing crew re that afternoons sailing, crew waving hats and cheering.

220312 01:00:00 - 01:12:30 1944 SIL COL

On board British naval ship - various shots at sea . 01:03:12 France - chateau two men on balcony - two French men looking at poster Ò Its a Long Way to RomeÓ. US pilot standing next to small monoplane - cameraman and pilot pose for camera. 01:05:25 On board US naval ship - various shots other ships in convoy - high ranking officers. 01:07:40 London - Park Lane ? US press corp in uniform sightseeing - Big Ben - London park - tulips - nice street scene Houses of Parliament. 01:09:21 Football match Services ? at Wembley ? injured among spectators (dark) 01:10:44 US press corp pose with British army officer and wife ? 01:11:30 London Street maybe Oxford Street - shots from moving vehicle - Trafalgar Square - London buses.

221003 18:00:03 - 18:10:59 1944 SIL COL

Combat America Outtakes Pt 1

Various takes of gunner [Sgt. Posti] by plane and Clark Gable together and singly, both in flight gear; Gable w/ clapperboard.

18:01:49 Pan across grassy airfield, groups of airmen with bicycles - observation tower - shots Captain and airman on balcony of tower. Group of airmen on balcony of observation building. Silhouette shot of same from a distance.

18:03:11 Interior crew quarters - man sitting at desk.

18:03:55 Exterior, group of four officers outside hut.

18:04:15 Interior - CU airman in bed trying to sleep.

18:04:38 Crowded swimming pool w/ pavilion on far side.

18:05:04 Group of officers outside hut; Jeep pulling bomb train; Airmen on parade ground.

18:05:39 Man on diving board - dives - crowded outdoor swimming pool. Man down slide into pool.

18:06:04 Officers at briefing - no crews seen.

18:06:32 English village scene - carriage drawn by four horses turns into driveway past camera crew in BG. Airmen and women board carriage outside building. Four officers get into car outside hut.

18:07:52 Air crew standing next to bomb with writing ÒFrom the Boys of K of C # 92Ó - short shot USAF plane.

18:08:29 Inside crew quarters - airman in bed, propaganda posters just seen on wall.

18:09:04 Briefing room - crews listening and laughing then scramble.

18:09:26 Captain enters sleeping quarters of crew and pulls blankets off sleeping airmen; one gets up [shots repeated].

[NB Colour slightly washed out in parts.]

220468 01:34:41 - 01:36:25 1944 SD B/W

Robot Bombs Shot Down. London bomb wreckage. France? Robot bomb launching tracks. Men and women gun crews in England rush to action to hit V-1 flying bombs. Explosions in sky. Fighter planes explode V-1.

220475 15:53:26 - 15:54:12 1945 SD B/W

British Wives Of GIs Sail For America To Join Hubbies. Women and children exit train on platform. CUs mothers and children. Women lined up with children in arms; one of them speaks into microphone; other woman in wide-brimmed hat says how happy to go to USA.

220479 01:05:55 - 01:06:42 1945 SD B/W

British Wives of GIs Ask To Join Their Husbands in US. Crowd of women at railway station. British wives march down street with babies in prams. Women talk to camera re wanting to be reunited with their husbands.

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