Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Home Guard Defends the City

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
630A
Date Released
3 Jul 1941
Date submitted
1 Jul 1941
Date submitted
30 Jun 1941
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Spain Parades Army on Anniversary
  2. 2Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Soviet Support Rally
  3. 3Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Tanks from Canada
  4. 4Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Slow Motion Helps Graceful Diving
  5. 5Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Outboards’ Steeplechase
  6. 6Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Speed-On a Typewriter
  7. 7Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Artificial Wind Stream Trains Glider Pilots
  8. 8Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Survivors from the "Robin Moor"
  9. 9Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: The Big Guns Bark
  10. 10Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: US Army Landing Exercises Test
  11. 11Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: How to Deal with Parachute Troops
  12. 12Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell: Home Guard Defends the City

Story

Story No. within this Issue
12 / 12
Section Title
Movietone’s War Time News - Reported by Leslie Mitchell
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Home Guard Exercises. DESCRIPTION: The heavily bombed City of London is the setting for a Home Guard training exercise. SHOTLIST: Various shots of the mock fighting in the City of London, against the Canadians. Red Cross nurses tend the ‘wounded’ amongst the bombed buildings. Fairly good shots of street fighting. Bren Carriers and lorries were also used.
Keywords
Buildings and structures; Vehicles; Health and medicine; Women; War damage; Civil defence; Military
Footage sources
Great Britain
Card file number
40917
Credits:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
47
Story extras:
Film clip

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