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Go to HomepageReel Number: 220827-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1940
Country: England,United Kingdom
Location: London
TC Begins: 16:00:01
TC Ends: 16:12:11
Duration: 00:12:10
WWII - 1940s, England, London - Clearing Bomb Debris Men passing debris out of bombed out buildings. Interior wrecked hospital w/ row of metal beds & charred beams from collapsed & burned roof. Man picking thru rubble. Remains of ornate ironwork window guard. Exterior and interior views of ruined buildings. 16:02:27 VIPs in hats & topcoats inspecting damaged government or university building & statues (?); collapsed roof wreckage. (church?). 16:05:28 Civilian & military men clearing out bodies from tenement debris. Carrying covered body on stretcher. Rubble cleared from street; jackhammers, shovels. Body on stretcher. Crane hoisting block of rubble; men shoveling into dump truck & wheel barrows near collapsed tunnel entrance. Bodies on stretchers loaded into truck. 16:08:24 Woman in apron sells cigarettes? or other goods from sidewalk in front of wrecked shop. Wardens in street watching damaged car towed. Men pick thru blown out front of buildings. 16:10:06 Artist painting high society orchestra scene on house facade - mural as pedestrians walk past in sunshine. Shop front w/ similar mural selling Arrow shirts; window display, man browses. Ext. building & artist painting anti-aircraft & army air force & war cartoon scenes relating to blitz on wall. GOOD. WW2; England Homefront; London Blitz; Daily Life; 1940s;