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Britain in 1943 221753-05 | Footage Farm

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Channel: footagefarm · 2013 · Film & Animation

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12:32:58  Leonard Brockington K.C.; map of Britain.  
12:34:31  Montage:   Trees in breeze; grain; planes overhead; harvest; military watching sky from pillboxes; planes; light in window; waves on shore; soldiers looking out & air raid wardens putting on coats; sign re soldiers 1/2 price for entertainment performance; dancers circling floor; women & soldiers watching; LS.
12:36:46  Montage:  Miners w/ lanterns walking into mine; train to stop w/o lights; Scottish troops playing guitar & accordion singing, talking on train.  Train moving again thru dark.
12:39:13  Montage:  Mechanics in aircraft factory working on bombers.  Taxiing at night.  Light on sign:  Ambulance Station 76.  Woman in military uniform playing piano concert in museum as women knit.  Helmets & gear hanging on hooks; MCU women listening; church spire against clouds in moonlight.
12:40:21  Radio antenna in morning light, factories, protective scaffolding around towers, radio tubes lighted, CU gage, tubes, clouds, sky thru trees, silhouetted.  factory chimneys behind work horses; workers thru factory gates; pan across city from hilltop; business man to work carrying warden's helmet past damaged buildings; smoking chimneys.
12:42:29  Tree leaves in breeze; woman looking out windows to kids in school yard dancing in circle at recess; looks at picture on wall; MS & MCUs kids.
12:43:13  British military convoy thru small town w/ tudor half-timber architecture.
12:43:37  Aerial over industrial area; train over road; factory interiors w/ women working; loudspeaker; CUs of machines; women signing while working.  POV from train; interior of station w/ soldiers; canteens & serving Flanagan & Allen perform for war workers.  CU blackboard menu.  CU men listening to entertainers on stage.  Audience singing, smiling.
12:45:06  LS National Gallery (?)  Dame Myra Hess & military string orchestra playing for audience including civilians & service men & women at lunchtime concerts; interior w/ MCUs listeners, program, people entering, eating sandwiches, war artist exhibition of paintings, concert LS.  MCU Dame Myra playing.  Queen Elizabeth listening; sandbagged & removed paintings.  Listeners.
12:49:09  Exteriors, LS, barrage balloon overhead, London street scenes, buses w/ riders hopping off, rooftops & statue of Nelson, cranes on docks, assembling tanks in factory, women a machines, men & heavy equipment.
12:50:11  Military band marching down street leading troops.  Men in foundry w/ drop forge operating, furnaces, chimneys smoking, grain fields, cooling towers w/ steam.  Aerial thru clouds
12:51:29  The end.
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