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Go to HomepageReel Number: 300010
Color: Black and White
Sound: SD
Year / Date: 1941,1940s
Country: England,United Kingdom,USA
Location: London
TC Begins: 00:00:14
TC Ends: 00:09:13
Duration: 00:08:59
WWII - 1941, England: London Blitz, Propaganda Film Titles. 00:00:37 LS women & children on London street; people waiting for double-decker bus, rush hour, Big Ben, people walking down Tube station entrance, women behind sand bags. 00:01:11 CU man at anti-aircraft gun. 00:01:18 LS London street, people wait in line for public shelter then let in. 00:01:47 MS rotating cannon. LS Houses of Parliament, Big Ben tolls. 00:02:05 British soldiers at anti-aircraft gun. MS searchlight. Cannon aiming up. Firemen at engine w/ hoses. Air-raid warden looks at sky. Ambulance drivers get into vehicle. 00:02:20 CU hand flicking switch on warning siren. LS London, sirens wailing. Deserted street. 00:02:39 Blimps / barrage balloons in sky. Searchlights switched on. Guns fire. 00:03:34 Men play darts. Older couple asleep in bed. Shots of guns firing. Man asleep in hammock. CU searchlight. St Paul Cathedral. Man asleep w/ child. 00:04:25 Buildings on fire. Explosion. Firemen hosing flames down. Skyline w/ fire & smoke. 00:05:02 LS House of Parliament. CU hand switches siren off / “Raiders Passed” signal (all clear). 00:05:15 Shots of couples stirring in shelter beds. 00:05:32 LS bomb damaged street. MS destroyed houses. Men come out of houses & walk down street. Woman picks up milk bottle from step. Various shots of destruction / ruins. 00:06:02 CU man smoking pipe & looking at ruins. LS busy bomb damaged street w/ people, cars & trucks. Street scene, people going to work amid destruction. 00:06:18 LS firemen / wardens / workers near overturned double-decker bus in heavily damaged street. 00:06:23 MS Tube train on elevated tracks on damaged bridge. Well dressed man & women on horse-drawn carriage in busy street. Street scene. CU broken glass swept up. Woman walks into shop thru broken window as man sweeps up. Woman helps tidying up. 00:06:47 Woman comes out of house carrying clothes & kitchen pots; uses pram / buggy as wagon. Shots of people recovering belongings from destroyed houses. 00:06:57 Brief shot of King & Queen visiting ruins. 00:07:00 Street scenes. Firemen / workers clearing debris. Trafalgar Square. St. Paul Cathedral. Firemen hose building down. 00:08:00 MS of trucks parked in front of destroyed house. People carry furniture out, load onto trucks. 00:08:04 MS of man w/ megaphone speaking to crowd. Street scenes. Man writes “Berlin Bombed” on board w/ chalk. 00:08:20 Airmen load bomb under plane. Aerial of RAF bombers in flight. 00:08:30 Various scenes of cleaning up, bomb damage, street scene. Cat being rescued from rubble. 00:09:05 MS of bomb damaged Westminster Abbey w/ statue of Richard 1st in foreground. WW2 Air Raids, 1940s; Daily LIfe; Stiff Upper Lip; Carrying On; Carry On; Royalty; Damage;