WAR COMES TO LONDON - SHORT (SOUND)

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Channel: British Movietone · 2015 · News & Politics

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(30 Sep 1939) 

Storm clouds - posters - mobilization etc - Parliament Square - Crowds - No 10 Downing Street, comings and goings.  Diggin shelters in park - sandbagging.  Buildings being sandbagged.  A A Guns.  Barrage Ballons.  Guards at Palace.  Busbys and steel helmets.  Children evacuated from hospital.  Children being evacuated,.  Children at railway stations and in train.  Trying on gas masks.  Arrival at destination - being fed.  Outside Parliament - crowds.  Big Ben - 6 Neville Chamberlain and Mrs Annie Chamberlain leave No 10 and shake hands.  CU Big Ben 11 am (Sound).  Comings an dgoings of Parliamentarians.  Eden and Churchill enter parliament.  CU Poster - war - Neville Chamberlain at No 10.  CU Siren - People rushing for shelter.  Warden on cycle with notice "Take Cover" notice.  People enter shelters.  People leaving shelters.  Men queuing to join up.  POsters - Fire Service, taxi, trailer.  Tow A R P Wardens walk along street.  Various shots of Londoners walking along.  Man enters building with matress.  German Ambassador leaves Embassy.  CU Notice German Embassy.  Aliens queuing for registration.  Genreal shots Londoners carrying on as usual - carrying gas masks.  Long line of British troops singing "Pack up your troubles" (Sound)

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