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1944 England Homefront 250168-16 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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[WWII - 1944 England Homefront:  Poetic Documentary - The Eighty Days (V-1 Buzz Bombs)]
Montage:  Flying Bomb exhibit floor w/ military & civilians viewing from balcony; tilt up from English Channel to sky; old men lawn bowling; Queen Victoria statue silhouetted; barbed wire anti-aircraft emplacement on coast; two men talking; boy looks up; plane spotters on coastal cliffs; digging in anti-aircraft artillery; women plane spotters above channel waters; warden w/ binoculars; CU loading ammunition; CU operator turning AA gun w/ hand crank; man petting cat; buzz bomb falling & exploding in rural countryside; ack ack flak around buzz bomb; air-to-air of V1 & gun camera of firing at it, hit & explosion; sighting AA; workmen dive as falling burning plane hits & explodes behind tree line.
01:13:59  Montage:  Children run to fence gate to look, intercut w/ V-1 overhead; pan sky; boys smoking in grass; buzz bomb over; pan silhouetted trees; rooftops of smokey London; view from Trafalgar Square towards Parliament w/ traffic; men sighting on rooftop; MCU man looking up; LS of explosion in East London w/ smoke slowly rising.
01:15:53  Hospital interior w/ stretcher carried in; injured in bed w/ doctor standing taking pulse.
01:16:04  Civilians & firemen / fire brigade beside collapsed building sites, cleaning up to rescue & helping man, removing stretcher; girls place bouquets; MCU faces; LS over rooftops of smoking London; cleaning up debris w/ picks; collapsed buildings.  Title:  The End.
WW2 Daily Life; Civil Defense; 1940s;
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