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 they'd 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 Paul's Cathedral or another interior w/ damage. Damaged German planes. Goering & Hitler in railway carriage - meeting. 220883 21:37:28 - 21:46:33 1939 SIL B/W
WAAF - Women's Auxiliary Air Force and Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service.
Squad of female recruits march past camera, some still in civilian clothes.
21:37:48 Instructor and group of trainees next to small aircraft. CU Aircraft Log Book of Jean Batten. Women wheel Jean Batten's bi-plane out. Recruits arrive on bicycles. Recruits march into Gordon Dove hangar. Bi-plane and mono-plane landing on grassy field. Woman scanning skies for returning planes.
21:39:58 Autogiro taking off. Women carrying out maintenance. Autogiro on ground, women carry out maintenance on autogiro. Recruits in civvies.
21:42:08 Land girls - stacking wheat, harvesting. Girl driving tractor. Girls on horse-drawn wagon after work.
21:44;57 Packing and sorting apples. Picking tomatoes and cucumbers.
21:45:41 ATS girls enter school - in class being taught about engines. Girls harvest potatoes.
Homefront WWII 220656 1944 22:30:15 - 22:41:07
D-Day - Normandy Invasion - Good colour
Ship US 555 LCI grounded. CU woman officer. Body floating in sea. Top shot deck of transport / hospital ship as wounded brought aboard by hoist.
22:31:00 Good shots stormy sea smashing against harbour.
22:31:12 Ships tied up in harbor. Troops walking to shore from landing craft - wrecked jeep in foreground. Soldiers feet as shell casings fall around him.
22:31:39 G-A Aircraft in formation fly over
22:31:51 On board ship - prayers - priest conducts service. Sentry
22:32:33 Channel - small ships - barrage balloons over harbour. Sea defences. Troops into landing craft. Soldiers wade to shore. Rescued enemy pilot? climbing onto ship. Landing craft into harbour. Wake from boat.
22:34:25 Black troops loading crates onto truck. Beachhead activities. Stormy sea smashing against grounded ship. Body into landing craft. Shot of destroyer? taken from shore. Beachhead activities.
22:36:48 On board ship - firing anti-aircraft guns. CU officer. roops on deck. Shot of shoreline with barrage balloons. Various shots ships at sea. Officers on turret of US 84 with binoculars. Troops on shore. CU sailors.
22:39:41 Stormy sea smashing against harbour wall. Various shots landing craft.
22:40:34 On board ship firing Ack Ack gun.
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 they'd 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 Paul's Cathedral or another interior w/ damage. Damaged German planes. Goering & Hitler in railway carriage - meeting. 220883 21:37:28 - 21:46:33 1939 SIL B/W
WAAF - Women's Auxiliary Air Force and Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service.
Squad of female recruits march past camera, some still in civilian clothes.
21:37:48 Instructor and group of trainees next to small aircraft. CU Aircraft Log Book of Jean Batten. Women wheel Jean Batten's bi-plane out. Recruits arrive on bicycles. Recruits march into Gordon Dove hangar. Bi-plane and mono-plane landing on grassy field. Woman scanning skies for returning planes.
21:39:58 Autogiro taking off. Women carrying out maintenance. Autogiro on ground, women carry out maintenance on autogiro. Recruits in civvies.
21:42:08 Land girls - stacking wheat, harvesting. Girl driving tractor. Girls on horse-drawn wagon after work.
21:44;57 Packing and sorting apples. Picking tomatoes and cucumbers.
21:45:41 ATS girls enter school - in class being taught about engines. Girls harvest potatoes.
Homefront WWII 220656 1944 22:30:15 - 22:41:07
D-Day - Normandy Invasion - Good colour
Ship US 555 LCI grounded. CU woman officer. Body floating in sea. Top shot deck of transport / hospital ship as wounded brought aboard by hoist.
22:31:00 Good shots stormy sea smashing against harbour.
22:31:12 Ships tied up in harbor. Troops walking to shore from landing craft - wrecked jeep in foreground. Soldiers feet as shell casings fall around him.
22:31:39 G-A Aircraft in formation fly over
22:31:51 On board ship - prayers - priest conducts service. Sentry
22:32:33 Channel - small ships - barrage balloons over harbour. Sea defences. Troops into landing craft. Soldiers wade to shore. Rescued enemy pilot? climbing onto ship. Landing craft into harbour. Wake from boat.
22:34:25 Black troops loading crates onto truck. Beachhead activities. Stormy sea smashing against grounded ship. Body into landing craft. Shot of destroyer? taken from shore. Beachhead activities.
22:36:48 On board ship - firing anti-aircraft guns. CU officer. roops on deck. Shot of shoreline with barrage balloons. Various shots ships at sea. Officers on turret of US 84 with binoculars. Troops on shore. CU sailors.
22:39:41 Stormy sea smashing against harbour wall. Various shots landing craft.
22:40:34 On board ship firing Ack Ack gun.