1940 UNITED KINGDOM: FORTY-FIVE MILLION HEROES CAN'T BE BEATEN! - MIX TO - Everybody in the Front

Date: 12th September 1940

Location: LONDON, ENGLAND

Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)

London, England:

GV. Looking towards East End.

SV. Woman passing wrecked shop.

GV. Tramway wires and telegraph posts down in road, bomb crater at side.

TV. Showing mass wreckage of block of houses with A.R.P. workers.

STV. ARP workers amongst wreckage.

LV. looking down at houses in street.

Pan down wrecked school.

LV. ARP workers in street.

Pan up wrecked building.

SV. pan from wreckage to air raid shelters.

SV. Shelters.

GV. Wrecked houses.

Pan up mass of debris lying in street.

SV. Home guards keeping crowds back.

LS. Wrecked Houses.

SV. Pan 2 A.R.P. workers carrying sewing machine.

LV. A.R.P workers carrying furniture and furniture in the street.

SV. pan woman pushing pram and two kiddies, A.R.P. man helping.

LV. Row of deserted houses, showing wreckage in kerb.

SV. Cat amongst wreckage.

LV. pan down bombed school.

SV. Wrecked school.

GV. Wreckage of school and surrounding houses.

GV. Wrecked bus standing on end with front wheels and engine against wall of house.

Pan down from top of building showing bus.

Pan from bus to hole in road. SV. Wrecked bus.

TV. pan down wrecked block of flats to bomb hole in road.

STV. bomb hole.

SV. 2 Policemen walking past wrecked fire-pump pan to damaged flat.

SV. Woman with furniture in street.

CU. Water pouring from burst main pan up to wrecked cinema.

CU. Wreckage. LV. A.R.P. men demolishing dangerous structure.

LV. A.R.P. demolition.

CU. Sign post at Maternity hospital (See signs & sign posts)

GV. pan wrecked hospital.

LV. Wrecked hospital.

GV. pan wrecked hospital ward.

LV. pan wrecked beds.

SV. Wrecked bed.

LV. Nurses walking down path.

SV. Nurses down path.

CU. Nurse Gantry pan along other nurses.

SV. Nurse Gantry holding baby.

CU. Nurse Gantry with baby.

GOOD SCENES.

GV. & SV. pan of ARP workers amongst debris of wrecked houses.

SV. Wrecked car. LV. pan showing street of wrecked houses.

LV. Showing smouldering building, in distance (South Kensington Museum.) (Natural History?)

GV. Firemen on top of 2 ladders, hoses etc. spraying roof of Museum. Angle shot fireman pan to another on top of ladder. Pan from burning roof to firemen with hoses.

SV. Firemen wit hoses pan to shot from roof of South Kensington Museum, pan from firemen to fire.

SV. Truck showing hydrants. LV. Firemen on roof of Museum.

SV. Firemen.

SV. Interior, firemen inside building.

TV. Burning roof and hoses coming from ground.

TV. Bomb crater in road. Pan up to Royal Exchange.

CU. pan bomb crater showing burst main.

CU. Notice "Danger. gas escaping Smoking Prohibited."

GV. pan Bank of England. SV. Crater pan up Bank of England.

SV. Front of London Hospital showing broken windows etc.

GV. pan up London Hospital showing piece missing.

CU. Notice "City of London Police. Danger Unexploded Bomb."

GV. Wrecked cinema.

SV. Royal Exchange.

Pan up from broken gas main to Royal Exchange.

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