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You in Great Britain R1 of 2

Reel Number: 220466-14

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1954

Country: EnglandUNITED KINGDOM,United Kingdom

Location: London

TC Begins: 02:45:25

TC Ends: 03:03:36

Duration: 00:18:11

You in Great Britain R1 of 2 Servicemen enter British Museum, look at copy of Magna Carta. Magna Carta Island. Various paintings / art of British history - portrait of Queen Victoria. Houses of Parliament, traffic over bridge. Good shots from river Thames. Shots of American Constitution & Bill of Rights. Anti-Communist painting. Brief WWII scenes. VO re threat of Communism over animated map locating American bases in England. American servicemen in cinema watch this film before they go to Britain. 02:48:44 Piccadilly Circus US servicemen & others crossing road. Busy street scenes, crowds down underground steps. Servicemen outside BOAC house Piccadilly - pamphlets thrown down show countries of the British Empire. 02:49:35 US servicemen outside Bank of England. Coastline & white cliffs of Dover. Agriculture - combine harvester at work, pan over fields. Various paintings of merchant shipping lines. 02:50:40 Animated map showing trade routes. Docks, unloading sheep carcasses, loading of coal onto ship. Crates loaded & unloaded. Flashback WWI - war graves. 02:51:43 Royal family on Buckingham Palace balcony after Coronation of George VI. Flashback WWII, Spitfires, Blitz, Coventry & London, aftermath of bombing, classic shot of double decker bus in hole. Bombed out factories & industrial areas. War graves. Montage of British inventions: radar scanners, jet aircraft flyover; doctor injecting penicillin; television antenna; atomic bomb. Sign “Get Your Ration Books Here” queue of women, policeman checking ration books. Interiors, clerks at desk issuing books. Shopping after war, queue outside butchers. Inside shop, cash register, housewives shopping. Docks - coal loaded onto ship. New York harbor w/ freight ships. 02:54:40 First International Automobile / motor Show - various shots cars w/ glamour models including Jaguar sports car. 02:55:00 Communist parades in Germany - posters of Stalin and Mao. 02:55:17 Washington Capitol building - Newspapers re Marshall Aid Plan. Animated map showing industry . Difficulties after the war due to inflation; Coal miners talking; group of businessmen talking; housewife going through front gate; shopkeeper talking in doorway; buildings w/ for sale / to let sign. Workers leaving - all wearing flat caps. Industrial shots - car production - exporting cars Jaguar loaded onto ship. Two US servicemen stand on London street corner watching traffic. Crowds of pedestrians walk across bridge 02:58:04 Family life - man gardening, joined by daughter, admiring flowers - they go back into house where wife is serving dinner. Family sit down to eat - dishing out shepherds pie. British soldiers in Malaya getting paid, money counted. US servicemen paid. 03:00:04 US servicemen window shopping in department store - interior store, Americans make purchase watched by British shoppers - this sequence is advising Americans not to show off their relative wealth when stationed in UK. American in sitting room of family house having tea (American serviceman is portrayed by Larry Hagman ) 03:02:06 Sequence to show British workmanship - Jet aircraft taking off; big steam train pulls out of station; ships engines turning; textile printing by hand; textile factory. Man walking to work - slag heaps, industrial areas Midlands. Textile mill - Coal mines in Wales - Glasgow Clyde ships - top shot Princes street Edinburgh. Man after work going to pub for drink. Exterior Mother Shipton. NOTE: Any continuous ten minutes sold at per reel rate.

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