220762 1944 03:17:36 - 03:25:59
True Glory Reel 3
On the Allied invasion and conquest of Western Europe, 1944-1945. D-Day
Ships at sea, AV flying over coast of Normandy, Ground to air, planes carrying paratroops fly over. Interior plane, paratroops jump. Fleet at sea. Gliders towed and released behind beaches. Good shots ships nearing Normandy - on board activities. Big guns firing broadsides at Normandy coast. Aircraft over. Very good aerial shot bombing French coastline, ships pounding coastline, soldiers into landing craft. Shots in British and American crafts as approach beaches. Boats hit the beaches and soldiers out, troops wading through water under fire.
03:21:27 Big Ben - Houses of Parliament, good street scenes London early morning and fairly empty. Brief shot of press briefing - reporters run from room, Newspaper headlines re invasion. Men and women on streets reading papers. Zipper sign re invasion. Sign re invasion day prayers.
03:22:02 Landing on Omaha beach - classic shot man killed. American troops on beach, some wounded and dead. German POWs. Naval ship burning. Medic gives plasma transfusion next to cliff. Wounded tended to. US troops moving inland.
03:23:00 Germans firing guns etc. German Generals at meeting.
03:23:38 British troops landing at Gold Beach. Troops moving inland under fire , hedgerows, crawling across fields and digging in. Excellent shots British troops making slow progress inland - artillery firing etc.
03:24:36 Montgomery arrives on the beach. British and American troops moving inland. Various shots air support bombing and strafing. Beachhead activities, men looking at maps. Mass of US military vehicles and equipment off loaded, wounded taken on board landing craft. Mortar fired. 200509 1945 10:01:38 - 10:09:10 Si
Activities ETO 1945 - VE Day London - Colour [Part 1]
Winston Churchill at desk being helped with microphone etc getting ready to make broadcast. Churchill reading from paper and shielding eyes from lights, looking very grumpy.
10:02:33 Churchill through walled garden [ 10 Downing Street ?] applauded by female staff, out gate and into open top car, smoking cigar, tips hat - car off into Parliament Square [?], bystanders waving.
10:03:03 Big Ben showing 3pm.
10:03:36 Students parade in celebrations near Houses of Parliament - carrying wooden statue draped w/ school colours. Pan across crowds filling Parliament Square. Crowds at attention, soldiers salute. Union Jack flying [hazy].
10:04:54 Crowds mob arriving cars.
10:05:31 Top shot David Niven in uniform. Niven signing autographs. Crowds - mace carried into Parliament Square preceeding procession of Lord Chancellor, followed by Winston Churchill and other MPs - past Westminster Cathedral entrance.
10:07:55 Celebrating crowds in back of horsedrawn cart - Australian soldiers.
10:08:09 Man selling The Evening News newspapers - headline Germany Surrenders. British soldiers reading papers. US soldiers in jeep. Students parade in celebration with statue.
WWII. 200509 1945 10:09:11 - 10:18:39 Si
VE Day London - Colour [Part 2]
Winston Churchill and King George posing for cameras on steps. High angle shots of crowds in Mall filmed from inside Buckingham Palace gates.
10:10:36 Air to air bombers flying in formation at sunset. VS parade on 8th Army Air Force Field, England; US troops w/ Stars & Stripes.
10:12:00 Red London bus outside depot. Groups of civilians & Wrens [?] waiting for VE Day celebrations, London. Crowds waving flags in Piccadilly Circus - soldier climbing on hoardings. Advertising banner lowered down front of building - Bourjois - Creators of Fine Perfumes & Toilet Soaps. Crowds around statue outside Buckingham Palace; small kids w/ flags & hats.
10:14:14 LS Westminster Abbey, 09May45 - people out, bus past. CU Big Ben clockface 3pm; LS Houses of Parliament. London Crowds, 08May? Big Ben, pan shot down from United Nations flags to civilians, British and American Servicemen in Piccadilly Circus; dancers in streets, students parade w/ wooden statue, conga line; crowds in Trafalgar Square.
10:17:38 Crowds outside Buckingham Palace; Royal Family out onto balcony, crowds waving. 221251 13:26:16 - 13:36;11 1941 England B/W SD
The Fight For Liberty: The Second Year Of The War Pt 1 of 4
INCLUDING:
NFB by Stanley Hawes & James Beveridge .
Summer of 1940, troops march along coast. London soldiers on look out positions, House of Parliament in background, policemen walk past air raid shelter, look for the enemy at night.
13:27:32 Animated map shows invasion threat for Britain from Germany; German army across the straits of Dover, big guns put in place along French coast, prepare for invasion. Soldiers w/ binoculars in watch tower. August 1941, attack begins, soldiers load guns onto aircrafts. Planes on runway, take off; various shots of bombers in the air, English soldiers in listening posts, prepare guns, people enter bomb shelters.
13:29:15 Ground forces load anti-aircraft guns & shoot at planes flying over; LS fighter planes drop bombs, explosions, fighter planes of RAF lift off to meet Germans for first great air battle of history; various shots of bombers in the air, shooting. Hit plane falls into the sea; dozen of RAF fighter planes in the sky, shot of Nazi aircrafts on the ground, traffic on the road at night. Battle of Britain.
13:30:33 People into shelter; night battle, shooting, explosions, buildings on fire, fire brigade fighting to extinguish flames, big buildings on fire. Next morning civilians climb out of rubble, city in ruins.
13:32:19 Big Ben, CU clock tower w/ bomb damage; shots of famous buildings damaged by bombing - House of Parliament interior, Westminster Abbey, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth outside damaged Buckingham Palace building. People clear away rubble, line up bombs on roadside, walk past ruined buildings. People cheer leaders visiting ruined streets incl. King George VI & Queen Elizabeth walk thru the rubble. Churchill waves from open car, American delegation incl. Wendell Wilkie walk thru city ruins, Cathedral(?).
13:33:23 Nazis march on the streets of ??, Nazi soldiers hand out sticks to police, officers walk past ammunition & machinery storage, high angle storage halls.
13:33:55 Shot of birds flying low above Thames River, British work in factory, shot of Ernest Bevin, metallurgy factory, various heavy machinery & industry; artillery production, int. fighter plane construction plant. CU Britain's Minister of aircraft production Lord Beaverbrook, planes in construction.
13:34:41 Canada street scene, cabinet meeting, Canadian army, soldiers marching in war training. 3 month after outbreak of war first division of Canadian troops arrive overseas, soldiers exit army cars, put guns in position, LS guns lined up on field. In the forest of Scotland, soldiers cut down big trees, Canada's navy sailors marching, soldiers in ships engine room.
13:35:51 Canadian Flag, soldiers in air training, study at table, work in workshop, big tractor levels new air field, high angle airmen troop training. 220639 17:09:20 - 17:18:02 1940 SIL B/W
WWII England - Air Raid Defences - Gas Masks. People reading information posters. Poster re fitting gas masks. 17:10:21 Women with children picking up branches ? Bulldozer digging trench in park. Queues outside building waiting for gas masks. Bulldozer digging up verge of road. Workmen constructing shelter ? Sign asking for volunteers re ARP. Queues for gas masks. Interior men trying on gas masks. Queues - line of waiting people on chairs. Exterior people having gas masks fitted and testing - baby girl having mask fitted - crying. Queues on chairs - mostly women and children. Interiors, gas mask fitting. Sign Borough of Camberwell - Fitting. 220639 17:18:14 - 17:23:56 1940 SIL B/W
WWII England - Evacuation of Children. CU Children waiting, kids onto bus, mothers. LCC Buses pull out of school playground, mothers wave goodbye. Bridge Street Westminster, crowds looking through railings. Crowd gathered outside ?, people entering watched by crowds. Policemen on door stops Indian man from entering. Sign on bus Westminster LCC. Buses loaded with evacuees pull away. Young girl evacuees with luggage leave building and onto bus. Young man wearing mortar board helps load luggage. Children on bus looking out of window, one wearing gas mask. Looks like it could be Public School 221135 17:04:51 - 17:13:23 1940; 1943 England; Germany B/W SD
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (1943) [Reel 4 of 6]
07Sep40 Roof spotters. ARP warden runs to police telephone box behind sandbags. Mass formation of German planes. Spitfire. German aircraft dropping bombs. People sheltering in Piccadilly Circus tube station. CUs of people; one puts hands over ears w/ cutaways to German bombs dropping.
17:05:22 Aftermath of blitz - bomb damaged houses & shops. INT hospital. Church demolished. Clearing up operations. Man carrying unexploded bomb. Roof spotters.
17:05:58 Civilian life on the Home Front. Taxi driver swaps cloth hat for tin hat; woman with ration book in grocery shop or store; man looks at air raid shelter sign, enters. SOF sequence in communal shelter w/ bunks. Cockneys cooperating, man plays mouth organ. Air raid wardens, doctors and nurses, rescue squads digging in bombed out building. Bringing out body on stretcher.
17:07:12 Firemen, firefighting hose destroyed buiding. Girl pets cat. King George VI & Queen Elizabeth tour bombed areas in East End.
17:07:33 Goering at planning meeting. 15Sep40 Luftwaffe aircraft loaded w/ bombs take off. German bombers & Messerschmidt fighters fly in formation. England spotters radio thru to control room. Plotting table. RAF Spitfires take off; dogfights, gun camera footage. Spotters. Barrage balloon in flames. Bombing over London. Dialogue scene men on bomb site, one goes to get tin hats. Blimey I thought theyd got ya. Nah, I ad me fingers crossed. Teletype machine prints out losses. Man reads out message from Air Ministry to control room - The biggest bag yet.
07:12:01 Wreckage of plane in street. Heavy damage. Clearing up operation in London. Wounded civilians. Bomb damage to Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey & Houses of Parliament. Fleet Street & St Pauls Cathedral or another interior w/ damage. Damaged German planes. Goering & Hitler in railway carriage - meeting.
True Glory Reel 3
On the Allied invasion and conquest of Western Europe, 1944-1945. D-Day
Ships at sea, AV flying over coast of Normandy, Ground to air, planes carrying paratroops fly over. Interior plane, paratroops jump. Fleet at sea. Gliders towed and released behind beaches. Good shots ships nearing Normandy - on board activities. Big guns firing broadsides at Normandy coast. Aircraft over. Very good aerial shot bombing French coastline, ships pounding coastline, soldiers into landing craft. Shots in British and American crafts as approach beaches. Boats hit the beaches and soldiers out, troops wading through water under fire.
03:21:27 Big Ben - Houses of Parliament, good street scenes London early morning and fairly empty. Brief shot of press briefing - reporters run from room, Newspaper headlines re invasion. Men and women on streets reading papers. Zipper sign re invasion. Sign re invasion day prayers.
03:22:02 Landing on Omaha beach - classic shot man killed. American troops on beach, some wounded and dead. German POWs. Naval ship burning. Medic gives plasma transfusion next to cliff. Wounded tended to. US troops moving inland.
03:23:00 Germans firing guns etc. German Generals at meeting.
03:23:38 British troops landing at Gold Beach. Troops moving inland under fire , hedgerows, crawling across fields and digging in. Excellent shots British troops making slow progress inland - artillery firing etc.
03:24:36 Montgomery arrives on the beach. British and American troops moving inland. Various shots air support bombing and strafing. Beachhead activities, men looking at maps. Mass of US military vehicles and equipment off loaded, wounded taken on board landing craft. Mortar fired. 200509 1945 10:01:38 - 10:09:10 Si
Activities ETO 1945 - VE Day London - Colour [Part 1]
Winston Churchill at desk being helped with microphone etc getting ready to make broadcast. Churchill reading from paper and shielding eyes from lights, looking very grumpy.
10:02:33 Churchill through walled garden [ 10 Downing Street ?] applauded by female staff, out gate and into open top car, smoking cigar, tips hat - car off into Parliament Square [?], bystanders waving.
10:03:03 Big Ben showing 3pm.
10:03:36 Students parade in celebrations near Houses of Parliament - carrying wooden statue draped w/ school colours. Pan across crowds filling Parliament Square. Crowds at attention, soldiers salute. Union Jack flying [hazy].
10:04:54 Crowds mob arriving cars.
10:05:31 Top shot David Niven in uniform. Niven signing autographs. Crowds - mace carried into Parliament Square preceeding procession of Lord Chancellor, followed by Winston Churchill and other MPs - past Westminster Cathedral entrance.
10:07:55 Celebrating crowds in back of horsedrawn cart - Australian soldiers.
10:08:09 Man selling The Evening News newspapers - headline Germany Surrenders. British soldiers reading papers. US soldiers in jeep. Students parade in celebration with statue.
WWII. 200509 1945 10:09:11 - 10:18:39 Si
VE Day London - Colour [Part 2]
Winston Churchill and King George posing for cameras on steps. High angle shots of crowds in Mall filmed from inside Buckingham Palace gates.
10:10:36 Air to air bombers flying in formation at sunset. VS parade on 8th Army Air Force Field, England; US troops w/ Stars & Stripes.
10:12:00 Red London bus outside depot. Groups of civilians & Wrens [?] waiting for VE Day celebrations, London. Crowds waving flags in Piccadilly Circus - soldier climbing on hoardings. Advertising banner lowered down front of building - Bourjois - Creators of Fine Perfumes & Toilet Soaps. Crowds around statue outside Buckingham Palace; small kids w/ flags & hats.
10:14:14 LS Westminster Abbey, 09May45 - people out, bus past. CU Big Ben clockface 3pm; LS Houses of Parliament. London Crowds, 08May? Big Ben, pan shot down from United Nations flags to civilians, British and American Servicemen in Piccadilly Circus; dancers in streets, students parade w/ wooden statue, conga line; crowds in Trafalgar Square.
10:17:38 Crowds outside Buckingham Palace; Royal Family out onto balcony, crowds waving. 221251 13:26:16 - 13:36;11 1941 England B/W SD
The Fight For Liberty: The Second Year Of The War Pt 1 of 4
INCLUDING:
NFB by Stanley Hawes & James Beveridge .
Summer of 1940, troops march along coast. London soldiers on look out positions, House of Parliament in background, policemen walk past air raid shelter, look for the enemy at night.
13:27:32 Animated map shows invasion threat for Britain from Germany; German army across the straits of Dover, big guns put in place along French coast, prepare for invasion. Soldiers w/ binoculars in watch tower. August 1941, attack begins, soldiers load guns onto aircrafts. Planes on runway, take off; various shots of bombers in the air, English soldiers in listening posts, prepare guns, people enter bomb shelters.
13:29:15 Ground forces load anti-aircraft guns & shoot at planes flying over; LS fighter planes drop bombs, explosions, fighter planes of RAF lift off to meet Germans for first great air battle of history; various shots of bombers in the air, shooting. Hit plane falls into the sea; dozen of RAF fighter planes in the sky, shot of Nazi aircrafts on the ground, traffic on the road at night. Battle of Britain.
13:30:33 People into shelter; night battle, shooting, explosions, buildings on fire, fire brigade fighting to extinguish flames, big buildings on fire. Next morning civilians climb out of rubble, city in ruins.
13:32:19 Big Ben, CU clock tower w/ bomb damage; shots of famous buildings damaged by bombing - House of Parliament interior, Westminster Abbey, King George VI & Queen Elizabeth outside damaged Buckingham Palace building. People clear away rubble, line up bombs on roadside, walk past ruined buildings. People cheer leaders visiting ruined streets incl. King George VI & Queen Elizabeth walk thru the rubble. Churchill waves from open car, American delegation incl. Wendell Wilkie walk thru city ruins, Cathedral(?).
13:33:23 Nazis march on the streets of ??, Nazi soldiers hand out sticks to police, officers walk past ammunition & machinery storage, high angle storage halls.
13:33:55 Shot of birds flying low above Thames River, British work in factory, shot of Ernest Bevin, metallurgy factory, various heavy machinery & industry; artillery production, int. fighter plane construction plant. CU Britain's Minister of aircraft production Lord Beaverbrook, planes in construction.
13:34:41 Canada street scene, cabinet meeting, Canadian army, soldiers marching in war training. 3 month after outbreak of war first division of Canadian troops arrive overseas, soldiers exit army cars, put guns in position, LS guns lined up on field. In the forest of Scotland, soldiers cut down big trees, Canada's navy sailors marching, soldiers in ships engine room.
13:35:51 Canadian Flag, soldiers in air training, study at table, work in workshop, big tractor levels new air field, high angle airmen troop training. 220639 17:09:20 - 17:18:02 1940 SIL B/W
WWII England - Air Raid Defences - Gas Masks. People reading information posters. Poster re fitting gas masks. 17:10:21 Women with children picking up branches ? Bulldozer digging trench in park. Queues outside building waiting for gas masks. Bulldozer digging up verge of road. Workmen constructing shelter ? Sign asking for volunteers re ARP. Queues for gas masks. Interior men trying on gas masks. Queues - line of waiting people on chairs. Exterior people having gas masks fitted and testing - baby girl having mask fitted - crying. Queues on chairs - mostly women and children. Interiors, gas mask fitting. Sign Borough of Camberwell - Fitting. 220639 17:18:14 - 17:23:56 1940 SIL B/W
WWII England - Evacuation of Children. CU Children waiting, kids onto bus, mothers. LCC Buses pull out of school playground, mothers wave goodbye. Bridge Street Westminster, crowds looking through railings. Crowd gathered outside ?, people entering watched by crowds. Policemen on door stops Indian man from entering. Sign on bus Westminster LCC. Buses loaded with evacuees pull away. Young girl evacuees with luggage leave building and onto bus. Young man wearing mortar board helps load luggage. Children on bus looking out of window, one wearing gas mask. Looks like it could be Public School 221135 17:04:51 - 17:13:23 1940; 1943 England; Germany B/W SD
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain (1943) [Reel 4 of 6]
07Sep40 Roof spotters. ARP warden runs to police telephone box behind sandbags. Mass formation of German planes. Spitfire. German aircraft dropping bombs. People sheltering in Piccadilly Circus tube station. CUs of people; one puts hands over ears w/ cutaways to German bombs dropping.
17:05:22 Aftermath of blitz - bomb damaged houses & shops. INT hospital. Church demolished. Clearing up operations. Man carrying unexploded bomb. Roof spotters.
17:05:58 Civilian life on the Home Front. Taxi driver swaps cloth hat for tin hat; woman with ration book in grocery shop or store; man looks at air raid shelter sign, enters. SOF sequence in communal shelter w/ bunks. Cockneys cooperating, man plays mouth organ. Air raid wardens, doctors and nurses, rescue squads digging in bombed out building. Bringing out body on stretcher.
17:07:12 Firemen, firefighting hose destroyed buiding. Girl pets cat. King George VI & Queen Elizabeth tour bombed areas in East End.
17:07:33 Goering at planning meeting. 15Sep40 Luftwaffe aircraft loaded w/ bombs take off. German bombers & Messerschmidt fighters fly in formation. England spotters radio thru to control room. Plotting table. RAF Spitfires take off; dogfights, gun camera footage. Spotters. Barrage balloon in flames. Bombing over London. Dialogue scene men on bomb site, one goes to get tin hats. Blimey I thought theyd got ya. Nah, I ad me fingers crossed. Teletype machine prints out losses. Man reads out message from Air Ministry to control room - The biggest bag yet.
07:12:01 Wreckage of plane in street. Heavy damage. Clearing up operation in London. Wounded civilians. Bomb damage to Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey & Houses of Parliament. Fleet Street & St Pauls Cathedral or another interior w/ damage. Damaged German planes. Goering & Hitler in railway carriage - meeting.