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1940 UNITED KINGDOM: FORTY-FIVE MILLION HEROES CAN'T BE BEATEN! - MIX TO - Everybody in the Front
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2:09Now PlayingDate: 12th September 1940
Location: LONDON, ENGLAND
Source: Reuters Historical News Collection: BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS)
GV. Policeman making notes amongst wreckage in back garden of house showing pieces of Anderson shelters.
GV. ARP. workers clearing debris.
FV. 5 ARP workers walking towards camera carrying stretcher with body, policeman passes in front of camera.
CU. pan ARP workers carrying stretcher past camera.
SCU. Warden talking to 3 women. FV. Warden & workmen lifting stretcher into ambulance.
SCU. sheets ready for wrapping bodies in, pan to ARP men & SP's lifting body onto stretcher.
LV. ARP workers on roadway, others in large crater turning over debris.
CU. Wrecked pram in street.
SV. 4 SP's wrapping body in tarpaulin.
TV. Looking down into wrecked house 3 ARP workers bending over body.
GV. Lifting body onto stretcher from crater, smoke rising in foreground.
GV. pan doctor supervising body on stretcher being carried into ambulance.
Travel Shot L.C.C. ambulance driving away.
GV. ARP workers clearing debris from front of block.
SV. ARP man emptying basket of rubbish onto pile in road.
CU. 2 workmen emptying rubbish on pile.
SV. Top floors of 2 houses with wrecked fronts, roof of one quite intact pan down to SV. whole of 2 of wrecked houses workmen clearing away debris.
CU. pan row of houses, back gardens showing debris.
LV. Body & bedding blown on roof of house.
SV. Man fixing ladder for ARP man in window to reach roof.
Pan to ARP men on roof removing bed from body. Shot woman looking from window with little boy.
SV. ARP men on roof with stretcher.
SV. Wrecked house pan back to ARP men lifting body of woman on stretcher from roof.
GV. Crowd watching.
CU. ARP man putting stretcher down.
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