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134 views · Published 1 July 2011 · 7:44 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: footagefarm · 2011 · Film & Animation

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[WW II England Rebuilding]
Two plane spotters on roof w/ binoculars.  CU of buzz bomb, men watch; another sees & drops to ground.  Explosion & building crumbles; people running to bomb hit near houses; fireman hosing wreckage.  Stretcher carried out.  Street w/ destruction & cleaning up.  Boarding bus w/ woman conductor; woman train conductor; women falling tree in woods w/ cross cut saw & axe.  Women working in fields harvesting grain; pitching straw w/ pitch fork.
Steel mill rail yard, workers thru gates; man at large drilling machine & other metal working scenes w/ men & woman working.  Village scene; int. w/ women at assembly line on long table.  Blackboard w/ production targets.
Animation showing British ships sunk.  Ships under construction; woman riveting; men working on navy ships.  Knocking out block & ship down ways at launching.  GOOD.
Unloading & loading ships w/ war goods.  CU stevedores.  Rationing.  Stores & signs.  Waiting in line.  Meat market & cash register.  Kids playing & in government nurseries; eating lunch.
Women walking to community restaurant.  Getting hot dishes in large interior.
Animated chart of loans, taxes making up war expenditures.  Kids buying savings stamps.
Daily Mail street poster:  War Ends.  Cheering crowd in street, women on shoulders.  People dancing around fire & piano etc. in street.  Lights on Buckingham Palace & Parliament.
Daylight shot across destroyed buildings near St. Paul's Cathedral & excavations.  Brochures:  Planning Our New Homes; A National Health Service; Social Insurance & Allied Services; Education Bill.
Women sitting outdoors planning housing, looking at models of towns.  Men looking at exhibit of housing in Westminster.  People picnicking on canal or river bank.  Double-decker buses at Trafalgar Square.  The End.
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