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London Blitz Aftermath, September 1940

Reel Number: 221069-08

Color: Black and White

Sound: SIL

Year / Date: 1940

Country: England,United Kingdom

Location: London

TC Begins: 16:13:01

TC Ends: 16:16:17

Duration: 00:03:16

London Blitz Aftermath, September 1940 Young girls helps father re-hang front door; sits outside house w/ mother peeling potatoes. Mother & children out of air raid shelter in garden. Civilians survey destruction after bombing raid - piles of rubble - Londoners drinking tea around outdoor stove, give thumbs up - ‘Blitz spirit’. New homes w/ bomb damage. Boy wearing tin helmet strokes cat among rubble. Bomb-damaged house, pan to small Union Jacks pinned to tree trunk. 16:14:37 CU car wedged between house & garden wall - thrown by bomb blast? - seen from vars angles - neighbours inspect damage. Dangerous building pulled down. Air raid warden carries small girl from ruined house. Some earlier shots repeated. 16:15:51 British warship HMS Hurricane in dock - smiling kids wearing sailors hats after surviving U-boat attack on the evacuation ship Benares. More shots bomb-damaged houses. Good. WWII. British Home Front.

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