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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221475-04
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1946
Country: England,United Kingdom
Location: London
TC Begins: 14:32:19
TC Ends: 14:40:03
Duration: 00:07:44
WW II England Rebuilding Two plane spotters on roof w/ binoculars. CU of buzz bomb, men watch; another sees & drops to ground. Explosion & building crumbles; people running to bomb hit near houses; fireman hosing wreckage. Stretcher carried out. Street w/ destruction & cleaning up. Boarding bus w/ woman conductor; woman train conductor; women falling tree in woods w/ cross cut saw & axe. Women working in fields harvesting grain; pitching straw w/ pitch fork. 14:33:46 Steel mill rail yard, workers thru gates; man at large drilling machine & other metal working scenes w/ men & woman working. Village scene; int. w/ women at assembly line on long table. Blackboard w/ production targets. 14:34:35 Animation showing British ships sunk. Ships under construction; woman riveting; men working on navy ships. Knocking out block & ship down ways at launching. GOOD. 14:35:35 Unloading & loading ships w/ war goods. CU stevedores. Rationing. Stores & signs. Waiting in line. Meat market & cash register. Kids playing & in government nurseries; eating lunch. 14:37:09 Women walking to community restaurant. Getting hot dishes in large interior. 14:37:33 Animated chart of loans, taxes making up war expenditures. Kids buying savings stamps. 14:38:01 Daily Mail street poster: War Ends. Cheering crowd in street, women on shoulders. People dancing around fire & piano etc. in street. Lights on Buckingham Palace & Parliament. 14:38:39 Daylight shot across destroyed buildings near St. Paul’s Cathedral & excavations. Brochures: Planning Our New Homes; A National Health Service; Social Insurance & Allied Services; Education Bill. 14:39:03 Women sitting outdoors planning housing, looking at models of towns. Men looking at exhibit of housing in Westminster. People picnicking on canal or river bank. Double-decker buses at Trafalgar Square. The End. Post-WW2 Rebuilding; Great Britain; Daily Life;