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Galician Captured By Germans; British Homefront; Land Girls; Miners Strike 220713-04 | Footage Farm

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[WWI:  Liner Galician Captured By Germans; British Homefront & Women Workers; Land Girls; Miners Strike]  
Title:  Captured By A German Cruiser - Thrilling Adventure of a British Liner.
14:28:17  4-stack liner Union Castle steamship "Galician" off coast of Tenerife en route from Cape Town to Southampton, signalled to stop by German cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. 
14:29:00  German officers board Galician.  British officers captured.  Liner at sea.  Civilian group on deck posing & merrily waving hats at camera.  Captured officers to German cruiser.
14:30:44  Gaumont Graphic no. 452  Title:  British Women Pageant - 50,000 Women's Marched...  to show  desire to work for nation.  W/ banners in rain, crowd watching.   "mobilize brains & energy of women"  GOOD.
14:31:55  Title:  Delegates at the Home Office...   Delegates in bowler hats walk out of home office , pose for camera, Parliament in background.   Delegation of women pose & attend a meeting on behalf of women & children.  Women in uniform  doing farm work, shoveling mud or manure, milking cows, chopping hay in barn, Land Girls posing; spreading manure in field as men supervise.
14:35:19  British dignitary in wig w/ other dignitaries around reads King's proclamation re "eat less bread" re rationing, from steps of Royal Exchange.  Top shot crowd w/ hats.  Title;  GG no 639.  Men out to steps & repeat of reading, cheers, crowd.
14:36:38  Woman shopper holds paper rolls - toilet paper.  Women queuing outside shops, advert for Dundee Marmalade in BG.
14:36:52  Factory interior w/ large belt driven machinery & women workers in fruit cannery.  Peeling & coring fruit, cans along conveyor.
14:37:41  GG no 493 (?)  Flash title:  Dublin hears the Bugle Call...  Irish recruits off to war w/ horse teams pulling artillery caissons & troops marching thru city streets.
14:38:09  Title:  The Coal Strike - Scenes at the pit head.  The last miners "Special" leaves for home.  Men watch train pullin up, mostly men off & to building.  South Wales miners handing in their lamps; train leaves.  Men stand on platform, many young boys w/ coal dust on faces.
14:39:36  GG no 999.  Title:  South Wales miners at Tredegar record their votes.   Men standing putting votes in ballet bucket.  Scene at market stall? people hand over money.
14:40:24  Women workers nailing planks of wood in shed making large crates.
WW1; World War One; Shipping; Ocean Liners; Passenger Ships; UK Homefront; Industry;

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