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WWII - 1944, USA: Government Documentary: Know Your Ally - Britain Pt 1 of 4

Reel Number: 221578-02-P1

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1926-1940s

Country: Burma,England,France,Greece,Hong Kong,Singapore,United Kingdom,USA

Location: London,New York City,NYC

TC Begins: 03:37:21

TC Ends: 03:47:41

Duration: 00:10:20

NOTE: to order see: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Titles. Pt. 1 of 4 NOTE: Any continuous 14 minutes of film selected from 03:37:21 - 04:17:18 sold at per reel rate. 03:38:13 American football, crowds cheering, team practicing. Battle montage, Allied flags flying; shots of troops from China, Russia, Britain & America. Many shots of British troops marching past camera. 03:39:34 Animated map of British Isles comparing w/ Idaho. London street scenes & crowds in England, pedestrians w/ soldiers, traffic w/ double-decker buses. 03:40:08 US house w/ picket fence, front porch, neighbors chat; English house behind hedges. Crowded streets, British policeman, arresting man. Newspaper headline re General Strike - strikers play rugby against police. Map showing no part of Britain more than a hundred miles from sea. Tower Bridge opening, tugs & ships at sea, old sailor. 03:41:31 Montage Shots of Empire: Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Canada - and New York. Montage of 1938 in America - Yankees, Corrigan, last train on Sixth Ave El. Montage in Britain in 1938 Derby, father & son gardening, Preston North End in FA Cup. 03:42:22 Hitler at cheering meeting. Paper seller on London street; New York headlines re Sudeten crisis & Czechs defying Nazis. Crowds on streets in London wait for news of war. WWI war memorial & military cemetery. Headlines re Chamberlain to Munich, people at radios, Munich Pact signed. Chamberlain waving envelope: Peace in our time. 03:43:39 Poster re invasion of Czechoslovakia. Conscription act & men join army, uniforms, gas masks & soldiers march down street. Hitler laughing. Billboard Britain declares war on Germany. RAF planes in flight - leaflets dropped over Germany. 03:44:54 German tanks advance. British at radios hear Germany had invaded Luxembourg, Holland & Belgium. German paratroops & tanks - radio listening re Petain asking for armistice. 03:45:22 Map showing German incursion areas - Hitler w/ officers. Lion snarling - Britain finally aroused. White cliffs of Dover - radio listening excerpt from Churchill speech: “...we shall never surrender!“ 03:46:06 Blitz on London - bomb damage & rescue operations. Horse-drawn funeral carriage. Armament factories. Montage defeats, Dunkirk - Greece. English troops in Hong Kong, Singapore, Burma. Factories. Continued... Pre-WWII - England; Homefront; Allies; Special Relationship; Friendship; Daily Life; England; USA; NOTE: Most sequences in this film are short - montages, but good quality. NOTE: Any continuous 14 minutes of film selected from 03:37:21 - 04:17:18 sold at per reel rate. NOTE: to order see: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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