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WWII - 1942, England: Listen To Britain

Reel Number: 221753-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1942

Country: England,United Kingdom

Location:

TC Begins: 12:32:31

TC Ends: 12:51:34

Duration: 00:19:03

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Main title 12:32:58 Leonard Brockington K.C.; map of Britain. 12:34:31 Montage: Trees in breeze; grain; planes overhead; harvest; military watching sky from pillboxes; planes; light in window; waves on shore; soldiers looking out & air raid wardens putting on coats; sign re soldiers 1/2 price for entertainment performance; dancers circling floor; women & soldiers watching; LS. 12:36:46 Montage: Miners w/ lanterns walking into mine; train to stop w/o lights; Scottish troops playing guitar & accordion singing, talking on train. Train moving again thru dark. 12:39:13 Montage: Mechanics in aircraft factory working on bombers. Taxiing at night. Light on sign: Ambulance Station 76. Woman in military uniform playing piano concert in museum as women knit. Helmets & gear hanging on hooks; MCU women listening; church spire against clouds in moonlight. 12:40:21 Radio antenna in morning light, factories, protective scaffolding around towers, radio tubes lighted, CU gage, tubes, clouds, sky thru trees, silhouetted. factory chimneys behind work horses; workers thru factory gates; pan across city from hilltop; business man to work carrying warden’s helmet past damaged buildings; smoking chimneys. 12:42:29 Tree leaves in breeze; woman looking out windows to kids in school yard dancing in circle at recess; looks at picture on wall; MS & MCUs kids. 12:43:13 British military convoy thru small town w/ tudor half-timber architecture. 12:43:37 Aerial over industrial area; train over road; factory interiors w/ women working; loudspeaker; CUs of machines; women signing while working. POV from train; interior of station w/ soldiers; canteens & serving Flanagan & Allen perform for war workers. CU blackboard menu. CU men listening to entertainers on stage. Audience singing, smiling. 12:45:06 LS National Gallery (?) Dame Myra Hess & military string orchestra playing for audience including civilians & service men & women at lunchtime concerts; interior w/ MCUs listeners, program, people entering, eating sandwiches, war artist exhibition of paintings, concert LS. MCU Dame Myra playing. Queen Elizabeth listening; sandbagged & removed paintings. Listeners. 12:49:09 Exteriors, LS, barrage balloon overhead, London street scenes, buses w/ riders hopping off, rooftops & statue of Nelson, cranes on docks, assembling tanks in factory, women a machines, men & heavy equipment. 12:50:11 Military band marching down street leading troops. Men in foundry w/ drop forge operating, furnaces, chimneys smoking, grain fields, cooling towers w/ steam. Aerial thru clouds 12:51:29 The end. WW2; British Documentary; NOTE: Any continuous 10 minutes sold at per reel rate. NOTE: Mute. NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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