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Go to HomepageReel Number: 200552-01
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL
Year / Date: 1940
Country: England,United Kingdom
Location: London
TC Begins: 03:00:05
TC Ends: 03:09:16
Duration: 00:09:11
[WWII - 1940, Damage of London Bombing] Aug-Sep40 Bombing aftermath - burning ruins of house in flames and being hosed. Suburban street with terraced houses - firemen hosing remnants of fires and civilians mill about. Digging wreckage. Elegant house front with hole in facade. Clearing debris, passing buckets. Lovely shot firemen hosing house; firemen carries away fire victim in arms. Heavy smoke and flames out of building. MCU firemen. People (mostly women and children) on truck. Destroyed house, its owners on steps. Boats on River Thames? with smoke in distance. Night - Firefighters in raging flames. Suburbs, possibly North London - Man carries small object on shovel and throws it in outdoors bin as firemen watch. Civilians incl. women in pinafores outside suburban homes watching. Man holding used tiny bomb? Fire engine through street. Hosing large ruined building in city center. Smoking ruins. North London - crowd of onlookers; digging rubble; family outside house; woman passes rescued ornaments to daughter through window and daughter polished them. CU used small bomb held in hand. Women past firemen with pram. Black smoke. Blitz - Home Front; WW2; Destruction;